Our refugee program had generations of bipartisan, often faith-based support. The US Administration has terminated it.
A whites-only visa is not a refugee program, and has nothing to do with Congress’s intent or our treaty obligations.
But it does serve extremist visions of who should be American.
President Trump on Tuesday formally raised the refugee cap to allow the admittance of another 10,000 individuals — slots he said must be given to white Afrikaners in South Africa. In doing so, Trum…