WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has slashed its quota for refugees and prioritized accepting Afrikaners “and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.”
The United States will accept 7,500 refugees in the 2026 fiscal year—a historic low—according to a presidential memo posted on the Federal Register on Oct. 30. It is a drastic decrease from the quota of 125,000 refugees set for the 2025 fiscal year by the Biden administration. The Trump administration suspended the quota upon taking office in January.
The 2026 fiscal year began on Oct. 1 and runs until Sept. 30.
In a Sept. 30 memo on the federal register to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., published on Oct. 30, President Donald Trump explained that accepting refugees cannot be done blindly….