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The Trump administration meets next week to discuss what the refugee cap will be for the fiscal year starting Oct 1 after consistently working to trim back the US refugee program to zero admissions.

It’s an unusual target; refugees are subjected to the highest level of vetting of any person immigrating to the United States and the program has had consistent bipartisan support since it first began in 1980.

Bob Carey, who oversaw the refugee resettlement program under Barack Obama, told the Guardian in June that the push to end refugee admissions is “ideologically driven by some people in this administration who are against immigration in any way, shape or form.”