Posted on 01/01/2018 4:24:10 PM PST by EdnaMode
President Trump reduced foreign refugee admissions by roughly 70 percent in nearly the first year of his presidency, a new report reveals. Center for Immigration Studies researcher Nayla Rush released a new study comparing refugee admissions to the United States under Trump versus those under former President Obama between Jan. 20 to Dec. 20, 2017, and the same time period in 2016.
During the first 11 months of Trump’s presidency, the populist-nationalist president cut the number of foreign refugees entering the U.S. by about 70 percent, according to Rush’s research.
In his first 11 months, Trump admitted 28,875 foreign refugees to the U.S., a vast difference from the whopping 93,668 foreign refugees admitted in the same time period under Obama. Likewise, for Fiscal Year 2018, Trump has lowered the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. to 45,000, which as Rush notes, is the lowest refugee cap since 1980.
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Reducing “refugee” admissions by 99% would have been an A+. I’ll give President Trump a C- for 70%, not great but as good as can be expected with the courts out of control and the Deep State in open revolt.
Here’s hoping he moves up into the A range this year!
Without chain migration figured in, the numbers are deceiving.
No more refugees from anywhere.
We're not a dumping ground.
Dunno.
There some former ISIS sex slaves facing ‘honor’ killings at the gentle hands of their families. They might qualify as refugees. No chain migration, though.
Let’em go somewhere else.
But but but our good friends in the media told us Trump increased the number of immigrants coming in. Oh I’m so confused; whom to believe;whom to believe?
Good start, but number of refugees admitted is peanuts compared to chain migration immigrants.
Chain migration is 60 times bigger than DACA number.
90% of chain migrants are low wealth, low education, low skills, and many are seniors who get social security checks!
And Trump has said chain migration needs to STOP.
Trump did exactly what he said he would. Much to the media’s chagrin!
Good point.
Agreed. The media isn’t used to a president who keeps his promises.
He is finally getting rid of some of the refugee generating evils, such as obama’s JV and similar outfits.
He deserves an A+ for managing what he did despite all the resistance and left-wing pet “judges”.
Wow, that’s incredible. I don’t think that many people realize how big of a deal chain migration is.
You have a low bar for "excellent". I'd call it a "good first step" toward reasonable immigration control. We need to reduce it to a negative number: start sending them back to jihadistan where they came from.
Agreed. If you grade on a curve, he did amazingly well.
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