April 18, 2024

Report: 60% of Refugees to US in Last Month Came from Terror-Prone Countries

On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order banning refugees from seven terror-prone countries.

On February 7, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court blocked the presidentā€™s ban despite the fact that Obama signed similar bans multiple times during his tenure as president.

Now thisā€¦

60% of refugees entering the US since the Ninth Circuit Courtā€™s ruling came from terror-prone states.
CNS News reported:

Sixty percent of the refugees admitted into the United States since a federal judge halted President Trumpā€™s executive order designed to prevent ā€œforeign terrorist entry into the United Statesā€ originate from five of the seven countries identified by the administration and its predecessor as most risky.

Of the total 2,576 refugees resettled in the U.S. from around the world since U.S. District Judge James Robartā€™s February 3 restraining order, 1,549 (60.1 percent) are from Syria (532), Iraq (472), Somalia (363), Iran (117), and Sudan (65). No refugees have arrived from the other two applicable countries, Yemen and Libya.

Of the 2,576 refugees to have arrived since Feb. 3, 1,424 (55.3 percent) are Muslims ā€“ 817 Sunnis, 132 Shiā€™ites, and 475 refugees self-identified simply as Muslims, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.

Of the refugees hailing from the specified countries of terrorist concern, Muslims accounted for the overwhelming majority of those admitted in all cases except for Iran.

Muslims comprised 99.6 percent of the admissions from Syria; 73.5 percent of those from Iraq; 99.7 percent of those from Somalia; and 93.8 percent of those from Sudan. Of the Iranian refugees admitted, by contrast, only 9.4 percent were Muslims, while just under 60 percent were Christians of various denominations.

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