WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2018) The Trump administration's decision to cap the number of refugees permitted to enter the United States at 30,000 per year shows lack of compassion for the victims of war and persecution, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a press release on Tuesday.
"The fact that the US will cap the annual number of refugees admitted here at 30,000 - by far the lowest ceiling in four decades - demonstrates an utter lack of compassion for the victims of armed violence and persecution," HRW Refugee Rights Program Director Bill Frelick said in the release.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the decision on Monday.
Frelick said the latest reduction was "yet another abdication of a US leadership at a time when there were more people displaced around the world than at any time since the Second World War."
Even in 2016, when the United States admitted 85,000 refugees, resettlement was a path only open to a tiny fraction of the world's refugees, Frelick said in the release.
