The Associated Press reported that most of the refugees who will have the opportunity to enter will be white people from South Africa, while in past years the United States allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees from various countries around the world to enter.
It is worth noting that the administration of former President Joe Biden had raised the annual refugee admission ceiling to 125,000 people, which means that the Trump administration’s decision represents a reduction of more than 90%.
The US authorities did not clarify the direct reasons for this decision, but the Federal Register explained that the acceptance of refugees will be limited to cases that fall under “humanitarian reasons or national interest.”
Previous reports by the Associated Press revealed that the Trump administration had been considering reducing the number of refugees for weeks, as part of its new policy in the field of immigration.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has taken a number of strict decisions in this file, the most prominent of which was the temporary freezing of the refugee admission process, stressing that it will not be resumed unless it becomes clear that it serves the interests of the United States, according to Reuters.
