President Trump has issued an executive order halting admission of refugees for at lest four months. He will use that interlude to decide the future of the refugee program. In the last year of his previous admiration, Trump reduced refugee admissions to around 12,000. The Biden Administration sharply increased them, and proposed a total of 125,000 for 2025.
Trump will face pressure from business interests, particularly in the meat packing sector, to maintain a high level of admissions. They seek to increase profits by maintaining a cheap labor workforce. Neil Monroe of Breitbart notes that cutting back the flow of refugees will “pressure the meatpacking sector to invest in productivity-boosting robots and to recruit some of the several million American men who have fallen out of the economy.”
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