Trump administration limits refugee admissions
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President Donald Trump's administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500, and they will mostly be white South Africans.
Welcome to our live coverage of Day 2 at the Global Refugee Forum 2023. On Day 1, leaders and dignitaries from the co-hosts and co-convenors opened the Forum by setting out the challenges and opportunities that participants are here to address.
The US president said in an annual refugee determination dated September 30 admissions would be focused largely on South Africans from the country’s white Afrikaner ethnic minority.
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
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