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U.S. slashes number of refugees it will accept

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October 31, 2025

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 U.S. previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution.

- BY REBECCA SANTANA

U.S. slashes number of refugees it will accept

AFRIKANER refugees from South Africa at Dulles airport in Virginia in May.

The administration published the news Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry.

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