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Encyclopedia: Refugee Act (317 words) |
 | The Refugee Act was a 1980 United States federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons. |
| Congress passed the 1980 Refugee Act to consolidate the profusion of special and ad hoc arrangements, to bring U.S. criteria and procedures for granting refugee status into line with international law, and to grant resettlement assistance. |
| Scarcely a month after the Refugee Act was passed in March 1980, the Carter Administration faced a major mass asylum situation when 125,000 Cuban boat people and several thousand Haitians landed in South Florida over several months. |
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