Whereas every year people come to the United States seeking protection because they have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group or political opinion; Whereas, in 2018, for the first time since the 1980 adoption of the Refugee Act, the United States did not lead the world in refugee resettlement; Whereas the Trump administration has steadily lowered the refugee admission ceiling, beginning with a temporary freeze shortly after taking office in 2017; Whereas, on October 2020, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed over 60 Cameroonian asylum-seekers and 28 other African nationals despite recent allegations that many of these individuals were coerced into signing travel documents effectuating their removal; Whereas advocacy groups have raised concerns following reports that officials at Adams County Correctional, Winn Correctional, and Jackson Correctional Facilities in the New Orleans ICE Field Office Region, used coercive tactics such as physical violence, pressure, and threats to obtain Cameroonian individuals’ signatures on deportation documents; Whereas the number of sub-Saharan African migrants, including Cameroonians, entering the United States through Mexico has doubled from 2,700 in 2018 to 5,800 in 2019 and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) data, the number of Cameroonian asylum-seekers in Mexico increased from 23 in 2016 to 105 in 2017; Whereas, from 2012 to 2016, the number of Cameroonians applying for asylum in the United States has also increased from less than 600 to more than 1,300; Whereas the 2019 Department of State Cameroon Human Rights Report documented human rights abuses, including unlawful or arbitrary killings, disappearances by security forces, torture, and armed detention by nonstate armed groups, including Anglophone separatists, Boko Haram, and ISIS-West Africa (ISIS–WA) fighters