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On November 1, 2019, President Trump issued a Presidential Determination setting the refugee admission ceiling for fiscal year 2020 at 18,000 individuals. This reduced the number of refugees the United States would admit from the previous fiscal year's 30,000. The determination directly limited the number of refugees who could enter the United States during that fiscal year.
On October 4, 2018, the Trump administration issued Presidential Determination 2018-24135, setting the refugee admission ceiling for fiscal year 2019 at 18,000 individuals. This represents a reduction from the 45,000 ceiling established for fiscal year 2018. The determination directly reduced the number of refugees admitted to the United States in the 2019 fiscal year.
On September 29, 2017, President Trump signed Presidential Determination 2017-23140 setting the refugee admission ceiling for Fiscal Year 2018 at 45,000 individuals. This reduced the FY2017 ceiling of 110,000 by more than half. The determination directly reduced the number of refugees admitted to the United States during the fiscal year, from approximately 50,000 admitted in FY2017 to 22,491 admitted in FY2018.