Newly arrived South Africans are welcomed by US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, on May 12, after they accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the United States as refugees. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File Washington AP —

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.

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

No reason was given for the numbers, which a

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