LA Times: More than 500,000 in U.S. could be at risk of female genital excision - Open-borders fanatics are sometimes like inverted Imperialists: Bring them in & they'll become like us. --tma

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More than 500,000 in U.S. could be at risk of female genital excision

Nearly 507,000 women and girls in the United States could be at risk of female genital excision, including 57,000 in California, a new study has found.

That is more than twice the number that were thought to be at risk in 2000, the last year for which estimates are available.

Analysts at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, attributed the preliminary findings released Friday to an increase in immigration from countries where the practice is common, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Somalia.

It is unclear how many families continue the practice after moving to the U.S., but community activists say there is anecdotal evidence of girls being sent back to their parents’ home countries for “vacation cutting” and of traditional cutters traveling to the U.S. to circumcise girls in this country. ...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-female-genital-excision-20150206-story.html