Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees — Separating Fact from Hysteria...
The order temporarily halts refugee admissions for 120 days to improve the vetting process, then caps refugee admissions at 50,000 per year. Before 2016, when Obama dramatically ramped up refugee admissions, Trump’s 50,000 stands roughly in between a typical year of refugee admissions in George W. Bush’s two terms and a typical year in Obama’s two terms.
The bottom line is that Trump is improving security screening and intends to admit refugees at close to the average rate of the 15 years before....