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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Oct 30, 2025, 02:20 PM Thursday

Trump caps refugee admissions at 7,500 - mostly white South Africans [View all]

Source: BBC

The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500, and give priority to white South Africans.

The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, will apply for the next fiscal year and marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden.

No reason was given for the cut, but the notice said it was "justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest".
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The notice posted to the website of the Federal Register said the 7,500 admissions would "primarily" be allocated to Afrikaner South Africans and "other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands".

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy40jj71243o



"No reason given" since "because we're racist fucksticks" is still just a little too frank. But the subtext is there, and Miller will be admitting it proudly by the start of 2027.
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