Where does your state rank?
The list below represents the number of refugees resettled in your state from fiscal year 2007-2013. The stats are maintained by the US State Department at their Refugee Processing Center in Virginia. Here is the website, but its difficult sometimes to find the statistics easily. The list below was discovered by one of our many friends from Tennessee.
This is what the Refugee Processing Center says of its job (you’ve heard me mention WRAPS before):
The Refugee Processing Center (RPC) is operated by the U.S Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia USA.
At the RPC and at Resettlement Service Centers (RSCs), an interactive computer system called the Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS) is used to process and track the movement of refugees from various countries around the world to the U.S. for resettlement under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).
By the way, they keep statistics on the refugees’ religious affiliations, they just don’t make those public.
I think you will find this list as interesting as I do!
From 2007-2013 your state got this many refugees:
Wyoming 0
Montana 11
Puerto Rico 25
Hawaii 39
Delaware 49
Mississippi 51
West Virginia 81
Arkansas 83
District of Columbia 199
Alaska 522
South Carolina 812
Alabama 934
Rhode Island 1,057
New Mexico 1,112
Maine 1,294
Louisiana 1,563
Vermont 1,961
Kansas 2,007
North Dakota 2,620
Connecticut 2,817
New Hampshire 2,864
Nevada 2,945
South Dakota 2,986
Iowa 3,289
New Jersey 4,073
Wisconsin 4,095
Nebraska 4,593
Oregon 4,901
Idaho 5,924
Maryland 6,451
Utah 6,559
Tennessee 7,993
Indiana 8,536
Virginia 9,091
Kentucky 9,260
Massachusetts 9,386
Colorado 9,654
Ohio 11,508
Minnesota 12,112
North Carolina 13,977
Pennsylvania 14,365
Illinois 14,520
Oklahoma 14,901
Washington 15,300
Georgia 16,692
Arizona 18,415
Michigan 19,442
Florida 21,458
New York 24,139
Texas 40,257
California 48,813
Total: 399,179