Under Trump, refugee admissions are falling way short -- except for Europeans
This essay is very telling of Trump bigot immigration policies.
Under Trump, refugee admissions are falling way short — except for Europeans
Trump’s refugee policy helps Christians from the former Soviet Union, and hurts everyone else.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/17/17832912/trump-refugee-news-statistics
By Dara Linddara@vox.com Sep 17, 2018, 9:10am EDT
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The Trump administration has slammed the brakes on bringing refugees to the US. At the end of its first full fiscal year, new government data shows, the administration is falling way short of the expectations it set for resettling refugees — which were, themselves, way lower than the levels set by President Barack Obama and his predecessors.
While refugee arrivals from other parts of the world are down as much as 90 percent from Obama-era levels, resettlements from Europe — specifically, the former Soviet Union — have taken only a modest hit. In the rest of the world, the Trump administration isn’t going to come anywhere close to the “ceilings” it set for the fiscal year ending September 30. Resettlements from Africa are less than half of the “ceiling.” In the Near East and South Asia, the administration set a fiscal year 2018 ceiling of 17,500 — as of the end of August, with one month of the fiscal year left, it had resettled 3,642.
Refugee arrivals from Europe, however, haven’t suffered. In fact, they smashed through their regional “ceiling” months ago, and haven’t slowed down since.
To people who already assume that the Trump administration is aiming to slow American demographic change by disfavoring nonwhite immigration, this may not seem surprising. But the reasons for Trump’s apparent refugee exceptions are more complicated than that.
In fact, the reasons that European refugees are still coming into the US in higher-than-expected numbers end up revealing why nearly everyone else is not. The Trump administration has deprioritized taking in refugees, from the explicit bans of Trump’s first year to a lack of investment in the infrastructure needed to vet people and bring them over in a timely fashion. The former Soviet Union is the exception that proves the rule.
The Trump administration is settling way fewer refugees than anticipated this year — but way more European refugees...........................
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And I remember hearing that one of the first things Trump "accomplished" was to hurt the tourist industry. Little did we know then how bad it could get... 
