U.S. President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document published on Thursday said, part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide.

Trump said in an annual refugee determination dated to September 30 that admissions would be focused largely on South Africans from the country's white Afrikaner ethnic minority.

Trump paused all U.S. refugee admissions when he took office in January, saying they could only be restarted if they were established to be in the best interest of the United States.

Weeks later, he launched an effort to bring in Afrikaners, sparking criticism from refugee supporters. Only 138 South Africans had entered the U.S. by early September, Reuters reported

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