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		</div><p>The Trump administration wants to cap the number of refugees admitted into the US at the lowest number since the resettlement programme was created in 1980.</p>
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<p>A State Department proposal released on Thursday would put a cap on the number of refugees at 18,000 for the fiscal year that starts on October 1.</p>
<p>Last year, the administration placed the cap at a record low of 30,000. The limit has drawn protests from human rights groups as well as government officials.</p>
<figure id="attachment_140786" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-140786" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-140786" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/B23D62CA-B15B-4BFF-9530-A6F4C2F3FE88.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-140786" class="wp-caption-text">President Donald Trump must consult with Congress about the proposal</figcaption></figure>
<p>Donald Trump’s final decision on the cap must include consultation with Congress, which could push for a higher total.</p>
<p>The White House issued a separate order that requires added consultation with states and localities about settlement of refugees in specific areas.</p>
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<p>Of the refugee admission places, 5,000 would be set aside for persecuted religious minorities — an attempt to bolster Mr Trump’s heightened focus on global religious freedom — and 1,500 would be set aside for nationals of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, who are seeking asylum in the United States in far greater numbers.</p>
<p>Ryan Mace, grassroots advocacy and refugee specialist at Amnesty International USA, said: “To cut the number of refugees the US will accept to this low of a number reflects nothing more than this administration’s attempts to further hate, division and prejudice in a country that once valued dignity, equality and fairness.”</p>
<p>The group dismissed arguments that the US lacks the capacity to adequately vet and settle refugees, calling this “a purely political decision”.</p>
<p>A senior Trump administration official described the proposed new designations for religious minorities and other groups of notable importance to US strategic goals as a positive step forward.</p>
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<p>The changes would connect refugee “admissions directly to US national security and foreign policy priorities,” said the official.</p>
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