WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document published today said, part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide.

US President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document said, part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the US and worldwide.

Trump has claimed Afrikaners face persecution based on their race in the Black-majority country, allegations the South African government has denied.

The Trump administration announced plans on Thursday to drastically cut back the number of refugees to be accepted annually by the United States to a record low and give priority to white South Africans. Under the new policy, the United States would welcome 7,500 refugees in fiscal 2026, down from…

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees it allows into the country in 2026 to just 7,500 – the lowest in history – and most of those admitted will be White South Africans, according to a notice published Oct. 30 in the federal register. That’s a precipitous decline from the 125,000 annual refugee determination set for the previous year by former President Joe Biden under a once-bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which resettles people from around the world fleeing war and persecution. President Donald Trump quickly paused the program after taking office in January. The new determination sets the lowest cap since the program began more than four decades ago, according to the Migration Policy Institute. The memo said that it was justified by "humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest." It added that admissions would be focused on "Afrikaners from South Africa" and "other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands." Trump…

Admissions, which were over 100,000 under Biden, will primarily be allocated to Afrikaners and 'other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands'

Washington: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South

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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.