Florida in Top 5 for Refugee Resettlement

According to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement Florida was one of the top destinations in 2014. The largest numbers of refugees came from Cuba (2,177), Iraq (425), Burma (376), Democratic Republic of the Congo (155), Eritrea (36) and Iran (30).

Ann Cochran from Refugee Resettlement Watch notes, “[A]lthough we [the United States] resettled 69,986 refugees in FY 2014, that is not the complete story. The Office of Refugee Resettlement was responsible for over 30,000 asylees and another 58,000 ‘unaccompanied alien children’ being treated as refugees as well (and, cared for with your tax dollars!).”

Top resettlement states for FY 2014 are as follows:

Texas (7,214)
California (6,108)
New York (4,082)
Michigan (4,006)
Florida (3,519)
Arizona (2,964)
Ohio (2,815)
Pennsylvania (2,739)
Georgia (2,694)
Illinois (2,578)

Also three other states topped 2,000: Washington (2,483), North Carolina (2,443) and Minnesota (2,232). Readers may visit the Office of Refugee Resettlement to see from where in the world refugees to their state came from in 2014.

What is a fiscal year? For the purposes of refugee resettlement, a fiscal year runs from October 1 of the previous year to September 30th of the present year. So, that means we have now completed 5 months of fiscal year 2015.