The Trump Administration just lowered its refugee admissions ceiling for the next fiscal year to its lowest number in 40 years, and that’s not the only change afoot.

Christian refugees also appear to be getting precedence over Muslims fleeing conflicts in places like Syria, Yemen or Somalia.

This week on Wake we’ll go behind the numbers to see what’s changing in US refugee admissions policy.

Helping us do that are:

• Kathleen Newland, senior fellow and co-founder of
  the Migration Policy Institute
• Daniel Schneiderman, deputy U.S. program director at the
  International Crisis Group
• Carl Bon Tempo, associate professor of history at
  SUNY Albany and author of “Americans at the Gate: The
  United States and Refugees during the Cold War”

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Taped: September 21, 2018.

Hosted by Luke Vargas.