The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually to 7,500and giving priority to 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 on Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry.
No reason was given for the numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year's ceiling of 125,000 set under Democratic President Joe Biden.
The memo said o
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