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The Trump administration will set an annual cap on refugee admissions of just 7,500, and will prioritize white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity.
Under President Biden, the refugee cap was 125,000.
During his first term, President Trump also slashed admissions drastically as part of a broad reduction in immigration to the US.
Since returning to office at the beginning of the year, he has frozen admissions and said they could only resume if they were in the benefit of the US.
Trump then launched a flagship refugee program intended to prioritize white refugees from South Africa. The Trump administration said South Africa’s white minority is subject to state-sponsored violence and persecution, a claim Trump’s opponents and the South African government has rejected vociferously.
Back in February, President Trump announced that all foreign aid to South Africa would be halted over its governments persecution of the country’s white minority.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” the President posted on Truth Social.
“It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
He also announced that “any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship.”
The first cohort of 59 Afrikaners arrived in the US in May. A total of 138 have now been settled in the US.
Trump officials had previously discussed annual refugee admissions ranging from 40,000 to 60,000.
At a side event at the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump administration officials invited other nations to join a global campaign to roll back post-World War II asylum protections.
