"The bottom line is that Trump is improving security screening and intends to admit refugees at close to the average rate of the 15 years before Obama’s dramatic expansion in 2016."

David French provides us with a graph showing what the US ceiling on migrants was each year from 1980-2015, compared with how many actually migrated to the US.

Obama’s expansion was a departure from recent norms, not Trump’s contraction.

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