Fun with numbers! How many Somali refugees have come to your city in FY 2015, so far?
Posted by Ann Corcoran on January 2, 2015
Minneapolis Somali women angry with sentencing in 2013 terror-funding case. More fun on the way!http://www.komonews.com/news/national/2-Minnesota-women-sentenced-in-Somali-terror-case-207813961.html
In the previous post we gave readers the tiny Syrian resettlement numbers (so far!), but check out the Somali numbers—2,801 new Somalis have arrived in America in just the first three months of Fiscal Year 2015! At this pace they will surely be approaching the high George Bush Somali “welcoming” years!
Once again, see the very cool data base maintained by the US State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. (I use the fiscal year, but you might find it more understandable to use the calendar year option).
Somalis were resettled in about 115 cities large and small, but here are the top ten with the numbers in parenthesis. Again, these numbers are for three months (October, November and December 2014, the first three months of Fiscal Year 2015). And, it is possible that all December data has not yet been entered.
1. Minneapolis, MN (148)
2. Columbus, OH (127)
3. Phoenix, AZ (123)
4. Portland, OR (108)
5. Buffalo, NY (103) ...
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