In the first six days of October, the Obama administration resettled 3,062 refugees in the country, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
The second consecutive day of more than 900 new refugee arrivals raised the daily average or arriving refugees to 510 refugees per day for the first six days of FY 2017 (see chart). If that rate continues for the next 359 days of FY 2017, the Obama administration would resettle 185,000 refugees in the country, 75,000 more than the 110,000 he proposed to Congress for FY 2017, and 100,000 more than the 84,995 refugees resettled in FY 2016.
News of the continued acceleration of refugee resettlement in the United States backs what critics of the federal refugee resettlement program have been telling Breitbart News for several months.
“If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will be on a glide path to reach 200,000 refugees in FY 2017 easily. ...