Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2021

June 11, 2021

Presidential Determination No. 2021â08

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1)) (MRAA), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the MRAA, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the MRAA in an amount not to exceed $46 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs, including through contributions to international organizations by the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to the humanitarian needs of vulnerable refugees and migrants in Central America and third countries in the region.

You are authorized and directed to submit this determination to the Congress, along with the accompanying Justification, and to publish this determination in the *Federal Register*.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 21, 2021] NOTE: This memorandum was published in the *Federal Register *on June 22.

Categories: Communications to Federal Agencies : Refugee and migration needs, memorandum.

Subjects: Foreign policy, U.S. Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, U.S.; Immigration and naturalization : Refugees.

DCPD Number: DCPD202100496.

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