WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has curtailed refugee admissions for fiscal year 2018 to 45,000. This is a 47 percent decrease from the 85,000 refugees that former president Barack Obama admitted in fiscal year 2016. Obama had raised the ceiling to 110,000 before leaving office, but the Trump administration reduced admissions to about 54,000 in fiscal year 2017.
The 45,000 refugee admissions are split regionally: 19,000 from Africa, 17,000 from the Near East and South Asia, 5,000 from East Asia, 2,000 from Europe and Central Asia, and 1,500 from Latin America and the Caribbean.
