President Donald Trump is slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States, and people fleeing war-torn countries, human rights abuses and catastrophes will now be of lower priority than white people from South Africa.

The Trump administration is cutting the number of refugee places to as few as 7,500, for the 2026 fiscal year that began on Oct. 1, down from a limit of 125,000 last year under the Biden administration.

The White House did not provide a reason for the drastically lower numbers, which were published in a notice on the Federal Register, but this new cap sets a historic low for refugees being admitted to the U.S. since the program's inception in 1980.

The notice was published on Sept. 30 but became official on Thursday.

It states admission will "primarily be

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