Donald Trump’s talk of “extreme vetting” of Muslim immigrants may give comfort to those worried about the dangers of Islamic terrorism and Hillary’s Clinton promise to increase the number of these migrants brought to U.S. soil.
But the Obama administration is already presiding over a massive rush of Muslim refugees from war-torn nations into the United States, including tens of thousands of these questionably vetted migrants in 2016 alone.
The U.S. has allowed in 28,957 Muslim refugees so far this year alone, according to a Pew analysis of State Department data released Tuesday. That’s almost half of the roughly 63,000 refugees who have entered the country since the fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2015. According to Pew, this is the highest number of Muslim refugees the U.S. has admitted since 2002.
Astonishingly, more than half of those Muslim refugees came from the terrorist hot spots of Syria and Somalia. The State Department also permitted the entry of more than 6,000 Iraqis and almost 2,000 Afghanis. – READ MORE
