Refugee resettlements into the U.S., especially Muslim refugees, have plummeted under the Trump administration…as he promised.
Refugee Resettlement Watch In September, President Trump set the ceiling of new refugee admissions for FY 2018 at 45,000.
Based on the current rate of admissions, total FY 2018 numbers are likely to be well under that number. If refugee admissions continue at the same pace as they have for the first three and a half months of FY 2018 for the remaining eight and a half months of the fiscal year, total refugee arrivals for the fiscal year will be slightly less than 19,000.
Press Herald Two years ago, citizenship classes in Lewiston, Maine (aka Little Mogadishu) would be packed with 40 or 50 recent refugees to the United States eager to learn English and pass their citizenship tests. Today, those classes draw only five or 10 students.
“We don’t have new refugees coming here,” said Rilwan Osman, executive director of Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services. Nearly 4,000 refugees have settled in Maine since 2002, and the majority are from Somalia and Iraq.
Trump also has restricted programs that allow immigrants to bring their family members to the U.S. Among them is a program that allows families split during refugee resettlement to be reunified. That was suspended last year and then restarted in response to a judge’s injunction, according to the AP.
More than 70 percent of the cases at Catholic Charities Maine are family reunifications, DeAngelis said. Family reunification is also called “chain migration” by those, including Trump, who want such access to be more limited.
The changes have affected an unknown number of families in Maine who had been working to bring relatives here. Even in cases where refugee resettlement is allowed to continue, the slowdown could also be attributed to new security procedures established by the latest travel ban, DeAngelis said.
“What we’re mostly hearing is that family members are going through the security screening processes over again,” she said. “Family members in Maine are feeling very discouraged.”
The process of refugee resettlement is already a difficult one. Osman, who was born in Somalia, came to the United States in 2004. His application was in processing for three years while he lived in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Mahmoud Hassan, president of the Somali Community Association of Maine, said refugee admissions have become “a small trickle.” He said he knows many community members are waiting for relatives who seemed to be approved for immigration to the U.S. Now, their applications have been put on hold.
As the number of refugees coming to the U.S. shrinks, so will the resettlement system. The administration has told executives of nine private resettlement agencies they must close any office expected to place fewer than 100 refugees this year.
Catholic Charities Maine had expected more than 300 arrivals, so it was not affected by that directive this year. But it has made cuts to case managers as the flow of refugees dropped off. DeAngelis said the office lost the equivalent of five positions over the past year – about 20 percent of the staff.
Refugee Admissions (especially Muslim refugees) fall to a new low in the first two weeks of January 2018 as the number of Christian refugees rises.
Breitbart Seventy-nine percent of these refugees, or 158 out of 201, came from four countries: Ukraine (80), Burma (29), Bhutan (28), and Eritrea (21). The religious mix of arriving refugees continued the trend seen in the first three months of FY 2018 from September 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017: More Christians and fewer Muslims than under the Obama adminstration.
Eighty-five percent of these refugees, or 171 out of 201, were Christian, while only four percent, or eight out of 201, were Muslim. This contrasts dramatically with the last full fiscal year of the Obama administration, FY 2016, when 46 percent of the 84,995 admitted refugees were Muslim and 44 percent were Christian.
Overall, refugee admissions are down dramatically so far in FY 2018. During the first three months and two weeks of FY 2018 (September 1, 2017 to January 15, 2018), only 5,524 refugees have been admitted.
This represents an 80 percent decline from the same three months and two weeks period of FY 2017 (September 1, 2016 to January 2015, 2017), the last days of the Obama administration, when 27,508 refugees were admitted.
Voluntary agencies (VOLAGS), who have been paid more than $1 billion a year by the federal government for more than the past decade to resettle refugees, are beginning to feel the financial pressure caused by the reduced revenue associated with fewer refugee arrivals.
“The U.S. State Department has told refugee agencies it will sharply pare back the number of offices across the country authorized to resettle people in 2018 as President Donald Trump cuts the number of refugees allowed into the United States,” Reuters reported last month.
The number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with jobs, and get them signed up for their services! From most recent accounting, here.
- Church World Service (CWS) (71%)
- Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)
- Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) (99.5%)
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) (57%)
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
- US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) (97%)
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) (97%)
- World Relief Corporation (WR) (72.8%)
The number of Muslim refugees entering the U.S. has dropped by 94 percent which means a lot fewer people are dependent on the welfare system.
Rescue Only 791 refugees who identify as Muslim have entered the U.S. since October 2017. By comparison, the U.S. admitted 14,496 people identifying as Muslim from October to January in the prior year. Almost half of all refugees admitted last year were Muslim.
The Trump administration’s latest version of the travel ban, which went into effect in October, institutes new vetting measures for refugees and restricts admission for people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
Only 34 Syrian refugees have been resettled since the start of October compared to 4,675 during the same period last year. The number of refugees from Iraq entering the country has dramatically decreased by 98 percent.
Despite protests and a year of legal challenges, the travel ban still stands. What’s worse, the Trump administration continues to find new ways to yank back the welcome mat.
Here are more happy headlines:
San Diego County refugee numbers plummet following Trump’s block on arrivals
Trump lifts refugee ban, but admissions still plummet, data shows
Refugee admissions to U.S. plummet in 2017
Number of refugees moving to Buffalo plummets under Trump administration
Refugee Resettlement Agency Revenues Plummet Under Trump
Refugee Admissions Plummet to 1,242 in First Month of FY 2018
Refugee Resettlements Plummet Under Trump
Resettlement of Somalis in Minnesota plummets in wake of Trump policies
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