Far fewer refugees will be allowed into the U.S. in the coming year, and most of those who are admitted will be white South Africans who President Donald Trump has alleged face “unjust” racial discrimination in their country.

The Trump Administration will limit refugee admissions to 7,500 during the 2026 fiscal year, it announced in a notice published in the Federal Register on Thursday, a dramatic decrease from the 125,000 figure set last year under President Joe Biden.

Admissions will also “primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa,” the notice said, as well as other victims of “illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.” It pointed to an Executive Order the President issued in February, in which Trump condemned South Africa for what he descri

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