The number of refugees accepted in the United States has dropped by almost a half in President Trump's first three months, compared to Barack Obama's last three.
While 25,000 refugees entered the country in the last three months of Obama's presidency, 13,000 were approved in the early months of Trump's administration, according to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security.
The only common denominator between both administrations is the refugees' countries of origin. Under Trump and Obama many of them hailed from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Myanmar
The executive travel ban Trump issued in January may account for the significant dip because it barred those coming from Muslim-majority countries including Syria, Somalia, Iran, Libya Sudan and Yemen.
Barack Obama's quota in 2016 may also explain the gap. The former president wanted to fulfill his target of admitting 110,000 refugees - a significantly small number compared to Germany, which accepts about a million each year - so significantly increased the number
allowed in the country during his last three months.
Pew Research shows about 116,000 refugees were accepted in 2016 - the largest number in more than a decade.
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