The Trump administration has admitted the fewest refugees the US has accepted in decades
The Trump administration slashed the "cap" on the number of refugees accepted into the US to the lowest since the refugee program was created in 1980. The administration previously took in just 22,491 refugees in the entire 2018 fiscal year.
Trump has reduced both the number of refugees the US can admit annually — known as the "cap" or "ceiling" — and the number it actually ends up admitting.
In the last 20 or so years, presidents have generally kept the cap in the 70,000-range.
Though former President Barack Obama raised the 2017 refugee citing to 110,000 admissions, Trump took office mid-way through the fiscal year, and barely allowed half that in the country.
The Trump administration reduced the cap to 45,000 for the 2018 fiscal year but took in fewer than half, according to State Department data.
As of September 30, the end of the fiscal year, the government resettled just 22,491 refugees.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last month that the administration is slashing that cap even further for the 2019 fiscal year, and will accept a maximum of 30,000 refugees.
The historic drop-off in refugee admissions is particularly noticeable from 2017 data.
Throughout the 2017 fiscal year — which started in October 2016 — refugee resettlement in the US plummeted once Trump took office on January 20, 2017. In August of that year, the Trump administration only resettled 913 refugees.
Resettlement organizations in the US have expressed dismay at the Trump administration's reluctance to admit refugees — particularly when so many countries around the world are mired in crises that displace millions of citizens.
Refugee resettlement groups have warned that the reduction in admission levels would drain their resources and force the shuttering of many programs, making it even harder for the refugees who do arrive in the US to access any assistance they may need.
In the two years since Trump took office, the number of refugees accepted each month has remained low, and roughly stable. In the fiscal year 2019, usually between 1,000 and 3,000 per month have been accepted.
More at: https://www.businessinsider.com/refu...raphics-2018-6
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