Your tax dollars:
I just came across this interesting data base on each state. It is at the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). One can see the number of refugee cases and how much federal grant money is being allocated to your state. For instance you could have fun with the numbers by dividing the federal grant money by the number of refugees in the caseload for a given year. I just ran a few numbers and learned that some states get in the vicinity of $11,000 per refugee case (and that is just the money going to the state office and does not include money going directly to the volags).
Here is even a better one, West Virginia resettled one (yes, 1) refugee case in 2006 and received a federal grant totaling $100,522. Sen. Bobby Byrd in action?
There is other useful information too. Check it out here.