Numbers update from Wrapsnet as refugee arrivals slow to US
Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 27, 2017
In advance of a new EO supposedly coming out on Wednesday, checking the numbers this morning here are a few things I learned.
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Sec. of State Tillerson and Pres. Trump can still set the ceiling lower than 50,000!
Total arrivals this fiscal year (which began on October 1, 2016) are at 36,822. Last time we checked on 2/23 we were at 36,637.
President Trump has set the ceiling for this fiscal year which ends on September 30th at 50,000 (a number we argue is not that low when one examines all of the post 9/11 years, see here. Bush’s lowest year was 39,554).
47% of the 36,822 are Muslim refugees of some stripe.
Here is how they break down:
Ahmadiyya: 130
Shiite: 2,152
Sunni: 8,659
Muslim (who apparently don’t designate a sect): 6,547
A couple of things that interested me in the numbers. First we are bringing in large numbers of Burmese Muslims now (Rohingya, I presume). 817 are recorded as from Burma. In reality we don’t know exactly where they came from. They could be from the Muslim country of Bangladesh. These are not our responsibility!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/numbers-update-from-wrapsnet-as-refugee-arrivals-slow-to-us/
