FY17 REFUGEE ADMISSIONS AT 48,856

FY17 Refugee Admissions at 48,856 – 1,144 Below Trump's Ceiling

By Patrick Goodenough | June 27, 2017 | 4:32 AM EDT

Refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a UNHCR camp in Burundi. (Photo: UNHCR/A. Kirchhof)j

(CNSNews.com) – Monday’s Supreme Court decision allowing President Trump’s travel ban to take partial effect pending a hearing in the fall, also impacts  the president’s 50,000 ceiling on refugee admissions this fiscal year – a limit that is fast approaching.

One of the provisions in Trump’s original executive order, which the Supreme Court decision allows to take effect, is a 90-day ban on all refugee admissions, although only up to a point.

The administration will not be able to exclude a refugee applicant (on the basis of the executive order alone) if that applicant has a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

“But when it comes to refugees who lack any such connection to the United States, for the reasons we have set out, the balance tips in favor of the Government’s compelling need to provide for the Nation’s security,” the justices wrote.

Monday’s decision also lifted the hold – placed by lower courts weeks after Trump took office – on a provision in his executive orders that sets a limit of 50,000 refugee admissions in fiscal year 2017.  Again, however, the same proviso applies: 

If refugee applicants can credibly claim to have a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the U.S. they can be admitted, even if in doing so the ceiling is breached.

As of Monday, 48,856 refugees have been resettled in the U.S. since the fiscal year began last October 1 – just 1,144 below Trump’s ceiling. The fiscal year ends on September 30.

When he declared the 50,000 ceiling the president stated that allowing more than that number “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

It was well below the 110,000 admissions for FY 2017 which the Obama administration had proposed to Congress last fall.

With four days of June to go, 2,453 refugees have arrived in the U.S. so far this month, compared to 3,989 last month and 3,316 in April, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.

A total of 2,453 refugees have arrived in the United States this month (up to June 26), compared to 3,989 last month and 3,316 in April.  (Data: State Department RPC/Graph: CNSNews.com)

The June arrivals come from a range of countries across the globe, with the largest contingents originating from Democratic Republic of Congo (426), Eritrea (315) and Bhutan (246).

Other sizeable groups have arrived from Burma (216), Somalia (190), Ukraine (183), Iraq (176), Syria (160) and Iran (104).

Three of those countries of origin – Syria, Iran and Somalia – are among the six terror-prone countries at the center of the travel ban. Monday’s Supreme Court decision lifts the hold on implementing a 90-day ban on visitors from the six countries, again except for those with a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

The other three countries are Yemen, Libya and Sudan. June refugee arrivals included 38 from Sudan, and none from Yemen or Libya.

Of the arrivals so far in June, the majority (1,369 or 55.8 percent) are Christians of various denominations, while Muslims account for 759 (30.9 percent). Others include Buddhists (100), Hindus (82), Baha’i (22), Yazidis (20), Jews (15) and Zoroastrians (12).

The 48,856 refugee arrivals thus far in FY 2017 include 30,122 under the Obama administration (a period of 112 days), and 18,734 since Trump’s inauguration (158 days).

That’s 787 more refugees than were admitted to the U.S. over the same period of FY 2016, and 3,578 more than were admitted during the equivalent period in FY 2015.

The months of FY 2017 have seen refugee admission numbers decline steadily from 9,945 in October down to a low of 2,070 in March before climbing again, at a somewhat slower pace, to 3,316 in April and 3,989 in May.

Taking a longer view, the 48,856 refugee arrivals so far in FY 2017 compare to 84,994 in the whole of FY 2016 and 69,933 in the whole of FY 2015.

Justice Clarence Thomas – who joined Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch in saying they would have reinstated the full travel ban – expressed misgivings about the decision, saying he feared it would prove to be “unworkable.”

He predicted it would “invite a flood of litigation” as parties and courts grapple with questions of what constitutes a “bona fide relationship” and what determines whether an applicant has a “credible claim” to such a relationship.

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My comments: The Supremely Evil Court has now Usurped the Prerogative of the Presidency and the Congress, given them by the Constitution, Controlling Immigration into America. This will cause Irreparable Damage to America. Primarily, the Failure of the U.S. to acknowledge the Inherent Evil of Islam, will be her Undoing.