LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Trump administration has announced that it will drastically lower the number of refugees allowed to come to the U.S., which has some people in Louisville concerned about the impacts the decision could have locally.

President Donald Trump announced in late October that his administration would cap refugee admissions at 7,500 for the current fiscal year. The Biden administration had set that number at 125,000.

Duffy Trager, an immigration attorney with Trager Law in Louisville, called Trump’s record-low ceiling “drastic.”

“I took a look back when the caps were set in 1980,” he pointed out. “They were set for 50,000. The world population at that time was half of what it is now. So 7,500 is just a minuscule number for a population of 8 billion.”

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