October 30, 2025
RED FM News Desk
The Trump administration is drastically reducing the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to just 7,500, with most slots designated for white South Africans.
This represents a dramatic reduction compared to the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world previously allowed into the United States.
The Republican administration published the news on Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry.
No reason was immediately given for the severely reduced number, which is a massive decrease from the 125,000 ceiling set last year under Democratic President Joe Biden. The memo only stated that the admission of 7,500 refugees during the 2026 fiscal year was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
The slashed cap represents another blow for the long-standing program that until recently had enjoyed bipartisan support.
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