U.S. President Donald Trump is prioritizing white South Africans in a dramatically decreased quota of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year.
The Trump administration is cutting the number of refugee places to as few as 7,500 from a limit of 125,000 last year under the Biden administration, with the places mostly going to members of the Afrikaner white minority from South Africa.
The figure is for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1, and the administration published the news Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry. It said the reduction for 2026 was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
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