The Trump administration has reduced the maximum number of refugees it will accept in the next fiscal year from 45,000 to 30,000, the lowest level since the current refugee-resettlement program went into effect more than three decades ago, The Atlantic website reports today (September 20, 2018).
"The improved refugee policy of this administration serves the national interest of the United States, and helps those in need all around the world," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a brief statement on September 17.
The 30,000 figure is the lowest refugee cap announced since President Ronald Reagan signed the Refugee Act in 1980.
U.S. presidents have, on the average, set a ceiling of 95,000 refugees for a fiscal year.
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