Trump administration limits number of refugees to 7,500 and they’re mostly white South Africans

The Trump medication is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they volition mostly beryllium achromatic South Africans, a melodramatic driblet aft the U.S. antecedently allowed successful hundreds of thousands of radical fleeing warfare and persecution from astir the world.

The medication published the quality Thursday (October 30, 2025) successful a announcement connected the Federal Registry.

No crushed was fixed for the numbers, which are a melodramatic alteration from past year’s ceiling acceptable nether the Biden medication of 125,000. The Associated Press antecedently reported that the medication was considering admitting arsenic fewer arsenic 7,500 refugees and mostly achromatic South Africans.

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The memo said lone that the admittance of the 7,500 refugees during 2026 fiscal twelvemonth was “justified by humanitarian concerns oregon is different successful the nationalist interest.”