HRES533-119

That the House of Representatives— recognizes the urgency to establish and follow comprehensive, fair, and humane policies to address forced migration and refugee challenges; reaffirms the bipartisan commitment of the United States to promote the safety, health, and well-being of millions of refugees and asylum seekers, including the education of refugee children and displaced persons fleeing war, persecution, or torture in search of protection, peace, hope, and freedom; recognizes the many individuals who have risked their lives working, either individually or on behalf of nongovernmental organizations or international agencies, such as UNHCR, to provide lifesaving assistance and protection for people around the world who have been displaced from their homes; reaffirms the imperative to fully restore United States asylum protections enshrined in the Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–212) by rejecting harmful bans and restrictions that limit refugees’ access to protections and due process at the United States border; reaffirms the importance of the United States Refugee Admissions Program as a critical tool of the United States Government— to strengthen national and regional security; and to encourage international solidarity with host countries; calls upon President Trump to lift the indefinite suspension of the United States Refugee Admissions Program and to fully restore resettlement to the United States; and calls upon the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations— to uphold the United States’ international leadership role in responding to displacement crises with humanitarian assistance and to strengthen its leadership role in the protection of vulnerable refugee populations that endure gender-based violence, torture, human trafficking, persecution, and violence against religious minorities, forced conscription, genocide, and exploitation; to work in partnership with the international community to find solutions to existing conflicts, prevent new conflicts from emerging, and tackle the root causes of involuntary migration; to continue supporting the efforts of the UNHCR and advance the work of nongovernmental organizations to protect refugees and asylum seekers regardless of their country of origin, race, ethnicity, or religious beliefs; to continue to alleviate pressures, through humanitarian and development assistance, on frontline refugee host countries that absorb the majority of the world’s refugees, while effectively advocating for refugee well-being, including access to education and livelihoods; to meaningfully include refugees and displaced populations in creating and achieving the policy solutions affecting them; to respond to the global refugee crisis by meeting robust refugee admissions goals; to implement the United States pledges made at the Global Refugee Forum held in Geneva in December 2023 to expand refugee protection; to address barriers faced by refugees with disabilities by ensuring accessible infrastructure and the availability of disability-related services and social protection schemes; and to reaffirm the goals of World Refugee Day and reiterate the United States strong commitment to protect refugees and asylum seekers who live without adequate material, social, or legal protections.