State Department Stops Flights Bringing Refugees To U.S.: Report
The Trump State Department has ordered a stop to flights transporting refugees who had been approved to emigrate to the United States.
On Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). The statement from the White House declared, “Over the last 4 years, the United States has been inundated with record levels of migration, including through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). … The United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees. This order suspends the USRAP until such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.”
“Within 90 days of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit a report to the President through the Homeland Security Advisor regarding whether resumption of entry of refugees into the United States under the USRAP would be in the interests of the United States,” the executive order added.
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“The U.S. agency overseeing refugee processing and arrival told staff and stakeholders that ‘refugee arrival to the United States have been suspended until further notice,’” the Associated Press reported.
“Over 3.6 million refugees have entered the US since 1975 — more than the population of Utah,” USA Facts noted. “After hitting a 40-year annual low of 11,411 during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, over 60,000 refugees entered the country in 2023, the most since 2016. By June 30, 2024, the annual total had already eclipsed that at 68,000.”
In 2021, at the end of his first term, President Trump implemented a limit of 15,000 incoming refugees with restrictions on refugees from countries such as Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, but soon after that, in April 2021, former President Biden threw those restrictions out and raised the limit to 62,500 per year, later raising that number to 125,000 per year.