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Nearly all arrivals are from South Africa, following an executive order prioritising Afrikaners.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-08-18T11:05:37.491Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-08-18T09:10:17.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-18T11:05:37.491Z","readTime":"4 min read","scores":{"trust":62,"critic":77,"hype":30,"notes":{"trust":"Figures are sourced from State Department data and UNHCR, with origins clearly stated.","critic":"Provides context for the decline and clear specific data, but includes no quoted individuals.","hype":"Headline stresses the drop, yet the article remains measured and data‑focused."}},"tags":["#USRefugeePolicy","#TrumpAdministration","#SouthAfricanRefugees","#AfrikanerResettlement","#UNHCRData"],"entities":["United States","Donald Trump","South Africa","Afrikaners","Pew Research Center","UNHCR"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["The US admitted 10,258 refugees in the first ten months of fiscal 2026, down from 38,102 in fiscal 2025, as reported by Pew Research Center.","The refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal 2026 is 17,500, the lowest since the turn of the century, according to the US State Department.","South Africans accounted for nearly all refugee admissions in fiscal 2026, following an executive order prioritising Afrikaners, Pew Research Center reported.","In 2025, the US admitted fewer refugees than Canada and Australia, UNHCR data showed."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The United States admitted 10,258 refugees in the first ten months of fiscal year 2026, which ends on 30 September. That is less than a third of the 38,102 admitted in fiscal 2025, and less than a tenth of the 100,034 admitted in fiscal 2024. The figures come from US State Department data analysed by Pew Research Center."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Trump administration set the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal 2026 at 17,500, the lowest since the turn of the century. At the current rate, admissions will not reach that ceiling. Nearly all of the 10,258 refugees admitted so far this fiscal year are from South Africa. Before fiscal 2025, South Africans had never been among the top origin groups for US refugee admissions."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The shift follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in 2025, which prioritised resettling Afrikaners, an ethnic group descended from Dutch, German and French colonial settlers in South Africa. The order stated that the group faced \"government-sponsored race-based discrimination\" in South Africa, including the seizure of farms owned by White South Africans. Those claims have been disputed."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In 2025, the US admitted about 11,500 refugees, fewer than Canada’s 39,000 and Australia’s 19,000, according to UNHCR data. The US had been a world leader in refugee resettlement since the Second World War."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No right-rated outlet ran this story at all. 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