Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

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Title 3--
The President

Presidential Determination No. 2023-04 of February 24,
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 million from the United States
Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the
purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee and
migration needs resulting from the February 2023
earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, including through
contributions and other assistance to international and
nongovernmental organizations to provide humanitarian
assistance for refugees and internally displaced
persons affected by the earthquakes, including their
host communities, and through payment of administrative
expenses of 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, February 24, 2023