Nothing much new here but we don’t often see information about refugees going to Connecticut, so if you live in CT then check out this article from the Republican-American about Burmese refugees to your state. Burma is much in the news because the leader of the Karen was assasinated this past week.
We mostly resettle the Burmese Christian Karen refugees from camps in Thailand, but there are rumblings that the Muslim Rohingya from Burma (now in Bangladesh) are being considered for resettlement in the US.
More on Burmese refugees here from Reuters today.
Connecticut received over 20,000 refugees between 1983 and 2005. The largest numbers are from the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia.