Determination

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

By Joseph R. Biden Jr. Issued May 1, 2023 Published May 9, 2023
Document ID doc_b9483dc3b11649e2
Number 2023-09959
Citation 88 FR 29809
Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Determination: Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 9, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 29809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09959]

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Title 3--
The President

Presidential Determination No. 2023-07 of May 1, 2023

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

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 $50.3 million from the United
States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund
for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee
and migration needs in the Western Hemisphere,
including through contributions to international
organizations by the Bureau of Population, Refugees,
and Migration of the Department of State.

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.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, May 1, 2023

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