{"id":114661,"date":"2017-05-25T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114661"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:31:27","slug":"lat-a-look-at-the-decline-in-refugees-entering-the-u-s-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114661","title":{"rendered":"LAT: ‘A look at the decline in refugees entering the U.S. under Trump’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Courts may have stymied President Trump\u2019s efforts to restrict travel from six majority-Muslim countries and ban all refugee resettlement, but that has not stopped the number of refugees entering the United States from sharply declining.<\/p>\n

Monthly refugee arrivals have plummeted in all but four states in the current fiscal year, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n

The study, based on analysis of U.S. State Department data, shows a decline in refugee arrivals from 9,945 in October to 3,316 this April.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decline has been felt by 46 of the 50 states, and only four states had a higher number of refugees in April 2017 than they had in October 2016,\u201d said Phillip Connor, a Pew research associate. \u201cWhat is significant here is that we had a decline nationally for the first five months straight of the fiscal year, which is the longest consecutive decrease on record.\u201d<\/p>\n

…The decline in the number of refugees is also negatively affecting organizations that assist the newcomers. \u201cA lot of NGOs have had to lay off a significant number of staff,\u201d said Gottschalk.<\/p>\n

At least 300 personnel working for such resettlement agencies have been laid off nationwide, according to humanitarian officials.<\/p>\n

Zogg said World Relief had suspended its resettlements in Orange Count and Catholic Charities had closed their offices in San Bernardino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times: Courts may have stymied President Trump\u2019s efforts to restrict travel from six majority-Muslim countries and ban all refugee resettlement, but that has not stopped the number of refugees entering the United States from sharply declining. Monthly refugee … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t