Syrian Resettlement Under Trump Has All But Stopped – Other Refugees Admitted Are Lowest In A Decade

Article author: 
Tim Brown
Article publisher: 
D.C. Clothesline
Article date: 
30 June 2018
Article category: 
National News
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This is really big news.  President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, and within months, his administration saw more than twice the rate of Syrian refugees settling in the US than the Obama adminstration in the previous year.  However, just over a year later, the numbers of Syrian refugees have dropped to only 44 for FY2018 while other refugees being admitted to the US from all over the world are lower under Trump than they have been in the past decade.

The figures come from the State Department, which publishes a monthly breakdown by country....

What will happen in the coming six months is anyone’s guess, but the reality is that President Trump has significantly stopped a lot of refugees from entering the US.