A resolution reaffirming the importance of the United States promoting the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons in the United States and around the world.

Would put the Senate on record urging the President to restart refugee admissions. It is a request, with no force of law.

The details

Nothing in law changes if the Senate adopts this. A simple resolution puts one chamber on record. It spends no money, sets no rules, and never reaches the House or the President. What it asks of the White House is a request, not an order. If you or someone in your family is waiting on a refugee case, this does not move it. The Senate would go on record backing refugee protection. The text says the United States should fully restore the asylum protections in the Refugee Act of 1980. It calls on President Trump to lift the open-ended hold on refugee admissions. It asks him to restart resettlement. It also asks four officials to take nine steps, among them the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security. Those steps include more help for countries hosting refugees. Every one of them is asked for, not required. Much of the text is the sponsors' case, and it is pointed. The resolution states that a January 2025 executive order stopped refugee admissions and is still in force. It states that the 2026 ceiling was set at a record low of 7,500 people. It states that more than 95 percent of arrivals were Afrikaners from South Africa. It calls a further increase of 10,000 places for that one group politically motivated and unjust. It states that more than 100,000 people already approved are stranded. Those are the resolution's own claims and word choices. The text also cites outside numbers. It cites UN reporting that more than 117 million people had been forced from their homes by the end of 2025. It cites a federal study. That study put what refugees and asylees paid governments at all levels at about $581 billion from 2005 to 2019. The resolution offers these as its reasons. It changes no law.