The Trump administration recently proposed 15,000 person reduction to the refugee admittance cap for the 2019 fiscal year. 2018 saw the lowest refugee admittance cap in U.S. history allowing for the acceptance of 45,000 people. The 2019 fiscal year will set an all-time low, with the proposed cap of 30,000 refugees.
Christian leaders across the country have condemned this proposal including members of the Evangelical Immigration Table of the Southern Baptists Convention.
One notable leader who spoke out against the refugee acceptance deduction is Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore.
Moore said in a statement, “Seeing yet another drop in refugee numbers should be a shock to the conscience of all Americans.” The author and former dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville continued saying, “One day we will be ashamed that we as a nation turned inward, and away from our great tradition of serving as a beacon of liberty to those fleeing for their lives.”
Though Moore agrees that it would be almost impossible to take “unlimited numbers of refugees” into the U.S. he believes that the “increasingly lower number” of refugees being welcomed into the U.S. “is far below the level where America could and should be in leading the world in compassion for those in peril.”
“As a Christian, I am concerned for the well-being of all those in peril,” Moore…
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