More refugees have entered US in FY2017 than in any of the previous ten years
Article publisher:
Refugee Resettlement Watch
Article date:
3 May 2017
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Trump is on target to beat Obama numbers in two of O’s fiscal years!
There are some fascinating statistics at the Refugee Processing Center for those of you interested in getting the facts.
Below is a screenshot graph at Wrapsnet showing this year and ten previous fiscal years. It doesn’t yet include the month of April, but checking that number separately I found we admitted 3,316 in April. So add that to the 39,098 on the chart (for the end of March) we see that we are now up to 42,414. That is the highest number for this time in the fiscal year (FY17 ends on September 30th) than in any of the previous ten fiscal years...
If Trump reaches the 60,000 mark he will have surpassed Obama admissions in FY11 and FY12! I don’t remember any crying and moaning, or Obama bashing, in the media from the federal refugee contractors in those years.
Here is the chart.
Remember the ceiling is just that—a ceiling! Nothing in refugee law says the President must bring in that number!...