45,732 refugees admitted this fiscal year so far,
45% are Muslim, by Ann Corcoran 5/29/17
I’ve been asked frequently what the
numbers look like for which religions are practiced by refugees entering the US
right now.
Unless Donald Trump tells us that
the New
York Times story
was fake news last week, see here, and that we are not shooting for 70,000 refugees this
year, we will assume it is true (and report the numbers as they come in). Just a
reminder that any number in excess of 70,000 will put Trump ahead of most Bush
years and ahead of several of Obama’s years.
It doesn’t matter what religion the
alleged Burmese biter practices, the questions you should ask are, how did he
get through “extreme vetting” and can we afford ‘refugees’ with this degree of
apparent mental illness?
Before I give you the list, I want
to emphasize that religion should not be the main criteria for your assessment
of whether the refugee is good or bad for America. First, these people are all supposed
to have been PERSECUTED? Do we take some who are really simply economic
migrants, those who need work? If so, that is not the purpose of the Refugee Act of 1980.
Can we afford large numbers with mental
illness, or illnesses such as TB? Can we afford those who have no hope of getting off
welfare for a generation? Can we afford those who might already have criminal
tendencies that do not become evident in those personal interviews (when no
data is available from failed nation states)?
Are we to take into consideration
the need by big companies and the Chamber of Commerce for a steady supply of
cheap immigrant labor (supported by your tax dollars)?
Are we taking some supposed
‘refugees’ for other purposes of the US State Department, to ‘help-out’ some
country that is having a security or economic problem? Or, as we have done in
some cases (Uzbeks? Meskhetians?), where we want something from that country Again, religion should not be the primary reason we admit or deny
anyone, unless they can prove they are being persecuted for it!
Here is a list of some of the
religions recorded at Wrapsnet and
the refugees who practice those religions (data for this fiscal year from
October 1, 2016 to today). Note: This program operates on a fiscal year
basis!
Again, I do not include below all of
the religions listed. These are the larger (or more interesting to me) numbers
and these are not my categories, they are how they are categorized at Wrapsnet. 45% of those
entering the US in this fiscal year practice some form of Islam.
Since Trump was inaugurated on
January 20th, the percentage of Muslims entering the US has dropped to 39%.
Numbers for the fiscal year 2017 (so far):
Baptists (1,591)
Buddhists (1,380)
Catholics (2,713)
Christians (6,890)
Evangelical Christians (364)
Hindu (979)
Jehovah Witness (388)
Jewish (149)
Moslem Suni (9,663)
Moslem Shiite (2,509)
Moslem (8,180) These must not have
designated a sect
No religion (369)
Orthodox (983)
Pentecostalist (3,901)
Protestant (1,918)
Yezidi (416)
Total refugees this fiscal year:
45,732
Like it or not, these will be
Trump’s refugees because years from now (especially if we reach the 70,000 mark
by September 30th), no one will remember that Obama presided over 3 1/2 months
of the fiscal year.
Again, the data base goes on for 22
pages and I’ve picked those with the largest numbers, or in a few cases ones
that interested me like the small number of Jews entering as refugees. If
HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) still focused on Jewish refugees
they would be out of business by now!
One last thing! We have been admitting mostly
Burmese Christians for probably a decade, but the number of Burmese Muslims (Rohingya) are
on the rise and I note that, for this fiscal year, 1,108 of the ‘Moslems’ are
from Burma. I was also surprised to see how large a number of
‘Moslems’ there were from the DR Congo (325) when that whole flow was supposed
to have been, we were led to believe, Christians.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/45732-refugees-admitted-this-fiscal-year-so-far-45-are-muslim/
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