Refugees: H.R. 2712 (2001)

H.R. 2712, the Mass Immigration Reduction Act, called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration, including limiting refugee admissions and asylee adjustments to a total of 25,000 annually and require that refugees and asylees reside legally in the United States for five years before they could apply for adjustment to permanent resident status. H.R. 2712 would have reduced annual immigration from its current level of close to one million a year to closer to 300,000.