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Where do America’s refugees come from? (infographic)

Syrian refugees form the largest population seeking resettlement

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Since the federal Refugee Resettlement Program was created in 1980, the United States has welcomed more than three million refugees from all over the world.

In recent years, however, intake has declined noticeably amid the Trump administration’s move to limit annual refugee intake to just 30,000. That has had the greatest impact on Muslim-majority countries who have seen admission numbers plummet 90 percent from 2017 to 2018 according to the International Refugee Assistance Project.

Syrian refugees form the largest population seeking resettlement and they have been hardest hit by the change in policy. In 2016, for example, 12,587 Syrian refugees were resettled in the U.S. and in 2018, only 62 were admitted.

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In FY 2016, the U.S. resettled 84,994 refugees and in FY 2018, that number fell to 22,491. The Pew Research Center recently published an analysis of data from the U.S. State Department’s Refugees Processing Center which shows the primary origin countries in FY 2018. The highest intake came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 7,878 refugees admitted, followed by Myanmar (3,555) and Ukraine (2,635). Out of the total figure admitted last year, 3,495 (16 percent) were Muslim and 16,018 (71 percent) were Christian.

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