Advocacy groups have sharply criticized the Trump-Vance administration over its decision to limit the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. each year to 7,500.

The Associated Press notes the Biden-Harris administration in 2024 said it would admit up to 125,000 refugees into the country.

The Federal Registrar on Oct. 31 published a White House memorandum that noted the 7,500 cap. It states the “admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa … and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.”

The Council for Global Equality; Human Rights First; Immigration Equality; and the Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration in a joint statement they issued on Oct. 31 “decried the refugee admissions goal and its life-thr

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