AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - Maine is expected to resettle 50 white South Africans next year, a major decrease from the refugees the state has welcomed in previous years.

The Trump Administration has set the number of refugees admitted annually into the United States to 7,500 , and a notice from the Administration states the refugees will primarily be people from South Africa who are “victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands.”

The administration says white South African farmers face discrimination and violence at home, which the country’s government strongly denies .

Inza Outtara, Maine’s State Refugee Coordinator through Catholic Charities, says the number of refugees is a major drop from the about 1,000 refugees allocated to Maine last year. The refug

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