Giving Compass' Take:

· As the world faces the largest refugee crisis in history, Global Citizen reports that the Trump administration has dramatically lowered the refugee cap to the lowest level ever.

· How will this lower refugee cap impact the American economy? 

· Learn how a lower number of resettled refugees could hurt national security.

The Trump administration reduced the cap for the number of refugees who will be allowed to resettle in the US to 30,000 for fiscal year 2019, according to the New York Times.

Previously, the refugee limit had been reduced to 45,000, down from a 110,000 cap established by the Obama administration .

The country is on pace to accept around 21,000 refugees this year and the new cap is the lowest limit of all time, reflecting the Trump administration’s ongoing dismantling of the country’s refugee policies.

“The reduction in refugee admissions for Fiscal Year 2019 is part of a systematic effort by the Trump administration to tear down humanitarian programs long afforded bipartisan support that local communities built over decades,” said Mary Giovagnoli, executive director of the Refugee Council USA, said in a statement.

“The deliberate step-by-painful-step decimation of the resettlement program not only harms vulnerable refugee families and the communities that are ready to welcome them, but also strains the resources and threatens the stability of smaller, poorer refugee host countries left to fill the void created by the withdrawal of U.S. leadership,” she added.

Read the full article about the refugee cap by Joe McCarthy at Global Citizen.