Well, that's a pretty dramatic policy shift, ain't it?
A 94% decrease in the amount of refugees the United States will allow this year!
And the focus of the refugee program is going to be on a group that has been historically ignored.
The Associated Press was one of the first to report:
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
The Republican administration published the news Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry.
The AP notes that there is "no reason given" for the decrease, but I think that you can probably guess why.
Maybe if they hadn't abused the immigration and refugee system for decades, and if we didn't have refugees here for decades on end in perpetual limbo, then we wouldn't have to decrease the number.
The memo said only that the admission of the 7,500 refugees during 2026 fiscal year was 'justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.'
Wait, we're implementing policy based on national interest?
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