Barbara Day, domestic resettlement section chief at the State Department, speaking at a refugee conference in Phoenix, Arizona this week gave the audience some interesting information. She said that the US had resettled over 12,000 Iraqi refugees already in the first half of the fiscal year which began on October 1, 2007. The goal for the entire fiscal year is 12,000.
In the first half of the federal fiscal year, 12,850 Iraqis arrived in the U.S.
That is very strange since Matthew Lee reported only a month ago that we had admitted only 1,876 as of March 1.
The State Department said Saturday that 444 Iraqi refugees entered the country in February. That puts total admissions for the current budget year, which began Oct. 1, at 1,876 and leaves the administration seven months to admit 10,124 to reach its goal.
The State Department and the volags must have been busy little beavers this past month. I guess that would also explain why Lee (the Associated press reporter) had nothing bad to say about the Bush Administration on April first.
How many of the Iraqis admitted so far are Christian and how many are Muslim, that is what I would like to know.