TAKE ACTION: Urge Congressional, State, and Local Elected Leaders to Defend Refugees and the U.S. Resettlement Program

On October 3, multiple reports stated that the Trump administration planned to set the refugee admissions goal for Fiscal Year 2026 at 7,500 – a historic-low – with the vast majority of admissions reserved for Afrikaners, abandoning the 120,000+ refugees who had been through years of vetting and screening and had been approved for resettlement when Trump took office. No other president, regardless of party, has ever set a refugee admissions goal below 60,000.

News reports indicated that the President signed the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions (PD) on September 30th, although it would not be implemented until consulting with Congress, a statutory obligation that was legally required to take place before October 1st and before signing a PD. The administration will not schedule congressional consultations until after the government shutdown ends. This move closes the door to the world’s largest displacement crises and the most at-risk, compounding the refugee ban, which has remained in place except for certain Afrikaners.

Your voice matters. It is critical that our national, state, and local elected leaders hear loudly and clearly from their constituents that we want to welcome refugees, regardless of their country of origin, race, or faith tradition, and urge them to call on President Trump to reverse course and restore the refugee admissions program for the most at-risk refugees around the world.