[ April 19, 2024 ]
President Donald Trump has cut in half the number of refugees that were allowed into America during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Moreover, Trump’s boosted the number of Christian refugees to the point where they outnumber the number of Muslims.
The Washington Times has the story:
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President Trump, in just eight months in office, has succeeded in upending U.S. refugee policy, cutting by more than half the 110,000-refugee target that the Obama administration had bequeathed him and dramatically shifting the demographics of who is accepted.
Gone is President Obama’s overwhelming focus on Muslims, and particularly on Syrians fleeing a civil war that his administration facilitated. Under Mr. Trump, the rate of Syrian refugees has been cut by more than 80 percent, and Christians have overtaken Muslims in total refugees resettled.
“It’s impossible to escape the clear message that there’s a new sheriff in town,” said Matthew O’Brien, research director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for stricter refugee controls.
The Trump changes have reverberated around the globe, with the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees drastically cutting the number of refugee candidates it submits to the U.S.
After recommending nearly 35,000 refugee candidates last year, the UNHCR submitted just 3,591 applications from January to July.
Refugee advocates say the U.S. is relinquishing its global leadership and moral standing and have challenged parts of the administration’s policy in the courts, pushing the country to move back toward the goals set by Mr. Obama.
The previous president called for up to 110,000 refugees to be admitted to the U.S. in 2017 and indicated that he wanted Syrians to be a large part of that, with the country on pace for more than 15,000 resettlements this year.
But Mr. Trump, as part of his first “extreme vetting” travel ban executive order, changed all that. He called for cutting the refugee cap from 110,000 to 50,000 and placed a four-month pause on the refugee program and a more lasting ban on Syrians.
Resistance by the courts, immigrant rights activists and Democrats on Capitol Hill dented those plans, but at the end of the fiscal year, it’s clear that the president mostly got his way.
As of Tuesday afternoon, with four days left in the fiscal year, the government had admitted slightly more than 53,000 refugees — less than half of Mr. Obama’s goal but slightly more than Mr. Trump wanted.
Perhaps the bigger impact was within the demographic breakdown, where Muslims dropped from nearly half of refugees under Mr. Obama to slightly more than a third. Christians, meanwhile, went from 43 percent to 53 percent under Mr. Trump.
Syrians, who represented a stunning 15 percent of all refugees under Mr. Obama, dropped to just 8 percent under Mr. Trump.
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18 Comments
6 years ago
At last!! Someone finally works out who are the real threatened “refugees” and acts accordingly. Although the EU and the rest of the west still welcome the persecutors who have all but wiped out the Assyrian and Nestorian church congregations directly by leftist prejudice and political ignorance.
6 years ago
Finally there is a semblance of decency and intelligence in the White house. President Trump is showing an awareness of the situation that has been lacking under o’bimbo’s caliphate, in that immigration is no longer an exercise in muslim proselytizing America.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
Indeed, after the public muslim toilet o’bimbo turned the White house into, it is good to have it aired out, though there still is some residual flatulence wafting on the breeze, occasionally.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
There were just a few hundreds of muslims in many countries and now muslims rule those countries.
There are already 8 MILLONS of MUSLIMS in USA… and GROWING!
Percentage of muslim population in USA:
2010: 0,9%
2017: 2,6%. ….and GROWING!!!
Islam will dominate
6 years ago
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Trump can't ban islam
8 million Muslims my ass! At most there are only 3.9 million of the filthy scum suckers in the US and if they aren’t careful they could be a whole lot less!
6 years ago
I must admit to being in two minds about this, a decent ex Muslim doctor like Wafa Sultan who arrived in America to rejoin her husband after fleeing sharia cursed Syria was something to be pleased about, but she was just the one, when whole communities are moved from Syria or Iraq, Christianity dies there, the cradle it knew remains as empty as if ISIS had murdered them all.
For those nations to have a better future than the past, for me, the return of the Christians is essential, they are all a living link to the pre Islamic world, they belong there, defend them or give them the means to defend themselves but they belong there.
A God Who Hates by Wafa Sultan. Read it girls and get fore warned.
6 years ago
Libtards will translate this title to, “racist trump increases the intake of white supremacist illegals, to boost the support from far right racist Christians.”
6 years ago
50,000 is still too many of them.
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6 years ago
Should ban Muslim immigration entirely.
6 years ago
Brilliant move by Trump and totally reasonable. I hope eventually Christian refugees replace all Muslims.
6 years ago
Moslmes must be cut to 2% of the population and NO MORE. Anything exceeding that gets deported. Christians WELCOME!
6 years ago
The difference of a normal Christian and a jihadist terrorist.
6 years ago
I can see it now. “All Muslim immigration ceases to the US for 200 years per exec order, to be followed by a constitutional amendment. Snowflakes melting by the thousands….”
6 years ago
“There should be NO Muslim immigration unless totally vetted for ideology and not belonging to any Muslim Supremacist groups or mosque affiliation.”
That would be great, but Pres. Trump can’t do that alone. Every move he makes is blocked by the courts. As this article shows, the President is making good progress and is doing a great job.
