In light of Senator John McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running mate, and out of curiosity, I just checked to see how many refugees have gone to Alaska since 1983 and the number is relatively small—just under a thousand. Go here to check the numbers in your state. The refugees who went to Alaska came from Iran, Afghanistan, and the former Soviet Union among a smattering of other countries.
Compared to states like California, New York and Florida all of which have resettled hundreds of thousands, Alaska’s numbers are tiny.
But, of course, smaller still are Deleware’s! Just a reminder that Senator Biden, Obama’s VP, is one of the primary Senators who for 28 years has pushed for more refugees to come to the US, yet his state has taken only 771 of the millions who have come (on the taxpayers’ dime) here.