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In October 2025, the Trump administration slammed the door shut to the world’s most miserable, slashing the annual cap of refugee intake by 94 percent, to an all-time low of 7,500. Even the COVID-19 years of 2020–2021 averaged more, at 11,600, than this cap would allow. In the year that Reagan left office, the U.S. brought in more than 107,000 refugees.
America is choking off demand for refugees at a time when the planet has been jacking up supply. In 2012, there were around 10 million internationally displaced people (not counting Palestinians), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; that number cracked 20 million in 2017 and 30 million by 2023. The U.S. has gone from taking in one of every 70 global refugees during the Reagan/Jimmy Carter spike years of 1979–83 to around one in 4,000 now.
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Afrikaners, expected to account for at least 6,000 of the 7,500 slots, are subject to considerably less vetting than the reported “130,000 conditionally approved refugees and 14,000 Iranian religious minorities” who have passed through sometimes years of security screening, according to The New York Times. “Under the Trump administration’s updated procedures,” The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed officials, “many Afrikaners are being vetted in as little as a week.”
It is true that immigrants from South Africa earn among the highest median U.S. incomes of any nationality, and that speaking English (as 90 percent of Afrikaners do) certainly helps. It is also true, no matter how vociferously the Trump administration says otherwise, that Nigerians and Iranians do pretty damn well too. The average resettled refugee and asylee in this country, regardless of how lowly they started out, catches up to native-born American incomes within 10 years—and surpasses them within 20.
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Trump in 2025 revoked temporary protected status for more than 1 million people, and humanitarian parole (a temporary status for those with urgent humanitarian need) for half a million more. The majority of those affected were Venezuelans, including several hundred thousand that Trump himself had originally protected in the name of offering relief from the catastrophic police-state socialism of Nicolás Maduro.
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