President Trump has been called out as a racist after sharing his administration’s latest refugee admissions ceiling, which is now set to just 7500 people for the fiscal year 2026.

This is the lowest level on record, sources mentioned. The White House notice indicated how the reduced quota would be justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest of the nation.

But what caught many people’s attention is how the policy states that admitted refugees would be mostly from the White Afrikaner minority in South Africa.

This is an ethnic group descended from Dutch Settlers and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands. The South African government has strongly disputed the premise, speaking about how the claims of systematic white genocide or persecution are inaccurate.

Under former President Joe Biden, the refugee cap was set in the media at being just 100,000 plus in recent times, so this represents a dramatic reduction.

Furthermore, lowering the number of refugees would also mean shifting oversight of refugee resettlement policy from the American State Department to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.