"I'm proud of the fact," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News in December, that "President Trump has stopped all refugee resettlement into the country. The only refugee resettlement that is happening are the Afrikaners being persecuted in South Africa."
Oval Office pride vis-à-vis refugees used to flow in the opposition direction. "We lead the world," Ronald Reagan bragged in his last speech as president, "because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world.…If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."
