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1. Les États-Unis vont limiter les réfugiés à 7 500
L’administration Trump va limiter le nombre de réfugiés admis aux États-Unis. Le pays acceptera seulement 7 500 réfugiés l’année prochaine. La plupart de ces places iront aux Sud-Africains blancs. Trump a accusé le gouvernement sud-africain de discrimination raciale contre les Afrikaners blancs. Avant, les États-Unis acceptaient des centaines de milliers de personnes qui fuyaient la guerre et la persécution.
Vocabulaire: réfugiés (m pl) = refugees / admis = admitted / prochaine = next / plupart = most / places (f pl) = places / sud-africains (m pl) = South Africans / blancs = white / centaines de milliers = hundreds of thousands / fuir = to escape / guerre (f) = war
English translation
United States is going to limit refugees to 7,500
The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the United States. The country will accept only 7,500 refugees next year. Most of these places will go to white South Africans. Trump accused the South African government of racial discrimination against white Afrikaners. The United States previously accepted hundreds of thousands of people who fled war and persecution.
