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Trump Admin Cuts Quota for Refugees, Prioritizes Afrikaners

The Department of Health and Human Services will handle the settlement of refugees, avoiding bureaucratic overlap with the State Department.
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Trump Admin Cuts Quota for Refugees, Prioritizes Afrikaners
The first group of Afrikaners from South Africa to arrive for resettlement listen to remarks from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar (both out of frame), after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on May 12, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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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 Fiscal Year 2026 —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 Fiscal Year 2025 by the Biden administration. The Trump administration suspended the quota upon taking office in January.
Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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