Afghan refugees embrace family members after arriving at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., September 2, 2021, before boarding buses to a processing center. President Donald Trump said in a series of social media posts November 27, 2025, that he will "permanently pause" all immigration from what he called "Third World Countries." Photo: OSV News/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters. The number of asylum applications in the European Union fell significantly last year. In Germany, which remains the country with the most asylum applications, the number fell by a third to 163,000. The main reason for this was fewer applications from Syrians: after the fall of the Assad regime at the end of 2024, they…
