Reuters reports that the Donald Trump administration has announced a sharp reduction in the refugee admission quota: the United States will now accept no more than 7,500 people per year.
This is the lowest figure in the history of the American resettlement program, as previously the limit was 125,000. The new rules took effect on October 1.
As the White House notes, special attention will be paid to “victims of illegal or unfair discrimination”, in particular, white residents of South Africa. Earlier, Trump accused the South African authorities of “genocide of the white population”.
At the same time, white South Africans still live significantly richer than the majority of black citizens of the country: their average income is about three times higher.
In parallel, the head of the White House ordered the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for citizens of Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, and several other countries, who had previously been granted temporary permission to live and work in the United States.
