Editorial Board
Trump’s New Refugee Ceiling Is Built on Lies
The U.S. can and should admit 120,000 people a year, not 18,000.
Yesterday’s Vietnamese refugee, today’s U.S. general.
Photographer: Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images
It’s hard to say what’s worse about President Donald Trump’s decision to slash the number of refugees the U.S. will admit over the next year: its inhumanity or its dishonesty.
To be sure, the decision came as no surprise. Trump has been cutting immigration across the board. Not only was last year’s refugee ceiling of 30,000 a historic low, but the U.S. was displaced by Canada as the world’s leading country for refugee resettlement.