At present rate of admissions, Trump FY17 refugee
numbers will be in average range, by
Ann Corcoran 5/26/17
Sorry to all of you who follow RRW
regularly to have to keep repeating myself, but I want to blow a gasket every
time I see a story about “plummeting”
refugee admission numbers. The story that steamed me this
morning is one Drudge has listed (what is going on with Drudge, losing his
mojo?).
Here is the story from Pew (I know what Pew is!) with this blaring headline: Pew: Refugee arrivals in U.S. decline sharply as world crisis grows hat Pew is doing in its story
(besides skewing the news against Trump), read it yourself, is comparing October FY17 (9,945) the first month of
this fiscal year when Obama was pouring refugees in at an unheard of rate to
April FY17 (3,316) when frankly Trump is bringing in a moderate number of
refugees.
Look at this chart (again!)
(from Wrapsnet): After you note that October FY17 was the
largest first month (by far) of any fiscal year in the last eleven, then
take note that Trump’s April (3,316) is larger than Bush’s April 2007
(2,060) or even Obama’s April 2011 (2,190). So what the h*** are
they talking about! I don’t recall any story in 2011 bashing Obama for
his huge drop from October FY11 to April FY11!
I also had a chuckle as I read the
Pew story about how the numbers are plummeting in
Texas, but not a mention that the state withdrew from the program and that
although it is up and running now (without the state government), the
transition to the Wilson-Fish program did cause a slight slowdown. Texas is
still the number 2 state behind California for refugee admissions this year.
Remember that when Trump came in to
office he wanted a MORATORIUM on refugee resettlement for 4 months while they
reviewed the program for security concerns and, now long-forgotten, they wanted
to look into the issue of notification to communities. That would
have caused “plummeting” admission numbers.
With no talk of reforming
the program anywhere in sight, Trump is now on schedule to admit to the US
somewhere around 60,000 refugees this year. Compare that to Bush in 2007
and Obama in 2011 and 2012—all three years under 60,000!
Endnote: As of today we are at 45,732
for this fiscal year. See my right hand sidebar where I am tracking the
numbers every few days. And check out the fact that they
have removed the CEILING (which is not a target!) from the chart for this
year—the Obama dream number for FY17 of 110,000 has been removed. (See that
Obama never had a ceiling that high for his previous 7 years! Why was that?)
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