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Trump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more Christians than Muslims
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 9/26/17 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 09/26/2017 7:59:42 PM PDT by ColdOne

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianrefugees; muslimrefugees; refugeeresettlement; trumprefugees

1 posted on 09/26/2017 7:59:42 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Thank you, President Trump!


2 posted on 09/26/2017 8:01:04 PM PDT by JohnyBoy (We should forgive communists, but not before they are hanged.)
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To: ColdOne

Christians integrate. Moslems disrupt.


3 posted on 09/26/2017 8:02:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: ColdOne

Take that Kenyan!

Sllllaaaapppp!


4 posted on 09/26/2017 8:05:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national puch-bowl.)
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To: ColdOne

There were two “Middle Eastern” restaurants in my town. One was run by Lebanese Christians, the other features posters with Rachel Corey (St Rachel Pancake). The first had (it has since closed) a nice cheerful atmosphere, the latter had lots of olive-skinned men who looked daggers at us while we ate. Haven’t been back of course. Both run by Arabs, both served pretty much the same food, only one big difference, Islam.

Just like Britain seems to have a lot of problems with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, but not so much with Hindu Indians.


5 posted on 09/26/2017 8:14:24 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ColdOne

BUMP TO FIND AGAIN LATER


6 posted on 09/26/2017 8:18:26 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: ColdOne

WINNING WINNING!!


7 posted on 09/26/2017 8:19:35 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: JohnyBoy
Thank you, President Trump!

We need more Christians in this country. The Mooselimb religion is made up of leeches and heathens.

Mohammad used a lot of the Jewish practices to form this religion and unfortunately he perverted and created a lot of the Jewish customs.

8 posted on 09/26/2017 8:27:24 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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zero muslims in and 2,000,000 out would be better.


9 posted on 09/26/2017 8:28:50 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: ColdOne

Good news.

Be better if we allowed no more.


10 posted on 09/26/2017 8:31:48 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ColdOne

Demuslimify America starting with Hussein Akbar Obumma.


11 posted on 09/26/2017 8:37:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: ColdOne

Wow, more Christians than Muslims. That’s sure to piss the lefties off. They’ll be calling for an immigration ban if this continues.


12 posted on 09/26/2017 8:42:09 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ColdOne

**takes more Christians than Muslims**

Yes!!! Thank you President Trump.


13 posted on 09/26/2017 8:47:34 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ColdOne

Thank You, Lord, for making Donald Trump president. Bless and protect him with Your mighty power, we pray. Thank You for helping Your children, like the Syrian believers, in the midst of severe trials by putting Donald Trump in office.


14 posted on 09/26/2017 9:42:12 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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Islam is a war plan.


15 posted on 09/26/2017 9:42:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ColdOne
This article is borderline propaganda.

Obama accepted 85,000 “refugees” in 2016, and averaged 75,000 per year before 2016.

Trump's final number will come in at 55,000 or higher because of court challenges.

Almost none of these people - Muslim or Christian - are real refugees.

Most of them just claim to be refugees under USA and international law. Proving they are not refugees in American Federal court can take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Usually, the total cost of moving them to the USA, their future legal costs, and the future cost of Medicaid and other welfare programs they are eligible for, would have comfortably supported them in their home countries for decades!

Also, the percentage of Muslims dropped just a little over 10%, and the percentage of Christians rose exactly 10%.

16 posted on 09/27/2017 12:32:52 AM PDT by zeestephen
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