Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution

Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.

The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.

No reason was given for the drop in numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year’s ceiling set under the Biden administration of 125,000.

  • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

    …unless they ain’t white