Who are the 525 Syrian refugees admitted to the US in recent years; where have they been resettled?
Everybody is talking about the Syrian refugees admitted to the US, including the British press, here at the Daily Mail. But, let me be clear, most news outlets are reporting that we are going to quadruple the number already here from recent Syrian crisis to around 2,000 in the coming year.
Please remember that the US State Department has 9,000-10,000 in the pipeline created by the UNHCR and in fact until the recent revelation by the FBI, they had every intention of getting the flow up to that level this fiscal year!
The resettlement contractors have been agitating for 15,000 a year!
First Syrian refugee family arriving in Louisville, KY being helped with a grant from an Islamic charity. Hey! Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul—are you paying attention!
From the Daily Mail:
More than 500 refugees from Syria’s bloody civil war have already been resettled in the United States, and U.S. officials and members of Congress are becoming increasingly worried that jihadis linked to the ISIS terror army could slip into the country along with them.
Since war broke out in Syria nearly four years ago, America has welcomed 524 people from the rapidly disintegrating country with open arms. U.S. intelligence agencies lack the resources to vet them properly, but the Obama administration plans to admit a few thousand more this year. [My stats beginning January 1, 2012 indicate 525 Syrians have been admitted—ed]
‘The United States has admitted 524 Syrians since 2011,’ State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Feb. 13.
‘We’re likely to admit 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement in Fiscal Year 2015 and a somewhat higher number, though still in the low thousands, in Fiscal Year 2016.’
You can read the rest of the Daily Mail article.
As I said yesterday when I told you where Somalis have been resettledin the US in recent years, I’m doing a series of posts on facts the media (and you!) need to know.
The vast majority of Syrian refugees entering the US right now are Muslims (89%)
Here is how the religions of our newest Syrians break down (from Refugee Processing Center data). Arrival dates between 1/1/12 and 2/23/15. These are the exact category names used by the State Department:
Atheist (1)
Bahai (2)
Catholic (1)
Christian (36)
Jehovah Witness (8)
Moslem (20)
Moslem Shiite (8)
Moslem Sunni (437)
No Religion (2)
Orthodox (3)
Other Religion (6)
Yazidi (1)
So where did the US State Department resettlement contractors*** send them?
Arizona (19)
Arkansas (1)
California (72)
Colorado (8)
Connecticut (3)
Florida (21)
Georgia (15)
Idaho (9)
Illinois (50) ...
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