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Ethiopian refugee women wait to receive items distributed by the Kenyan Red Cross at a refugee camp in Moyale, Kenya's border town with Ethiopia, on March 19, 2018. The United States accepts almost half of its refugees from Africa. BRIAN OTIENO/AFP/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—The State Department is proposing a 30,000 ceiling for refugee resettlements in fiscal year 2019, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sept. 17.
The number is a 20,000-person decrease from fiscal 2017, and the lowest since 1980. However, Pompeo said, the United States anticipates processing an additional 280,000 asylum-seekers in fiscal 2019.
