For decades, America offered refuge to Christians fleeing some of the most dangerous places on earth.

In FY2024, the United States resettled 29,493 Christian refugees from the 50 countries where Christians face the most severe persecution, including people from Eritrea, Iran, Iraq and Myanmar. 2,007 came from Eritrea alone. 

Now look at what changed.

In FY2026, World Relief and Open Doors report that the United States is on track to resettle zero refugees from those 50 Christian-persecution countries. Zero. 

America did not simply close the refugee program.

Trump’s official FY2026 determination raised the refugee ceiling to 17,500 specifically to accommodate Afrikaners from South Africa, with the additional admissions allocated to them. 

And today the administration carried the policy into FY2027: another 17,500 refugee slots, primarily for Afrikaners, a predominantly white South African ethnic group. 

Think about what that means.

A Christian fleeing religious persecution in Eritrea, Iran, Iraq or Myanmar can find America’s refugee door effectively closed.

But the government created and preserved a refugee pathway for white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The administration didn’t eliminate the power to offer refuge.

It chose whom that power would protect.

29,493 persecuted Christians in FY2024.

On track for zero from those persecution countries in FY2026.

17,500 places created for a population selected from South Africa.

That isn’t Christianity first.

The data make the hierarchy painfully clear:

Ethnicity first. Christianity second.