On Monday I’ll be talking to a group in Ohio and so for those folks I’ve gathered some information on a state that seems to be newly targeted by Obama’s friends at Welcoming America. I first told you about that here in July 2013, and again here yesterday.
Ohio numbers….
Ohio has been receiving over 2,000 refugees a year since 2012, and all told in the last ten years it received 21,230. (See data base here.) I was surprised to find it that high. For comparison Delaware hardly gets any (zero in 2014) and Texas is getting over 7,000 a year.
In fiscal year 2014, Ohio received the 7th highest number of refugees in the country.
The Obama Administration and the politically Far Left federal resettlement contractors probably recognize the electoral value of Ohio, so they want to make sure it becomes a reliably Democrat-voting state.
The states higher on the 2014 list than Ohio (2,815) in the last fiscal year are in descending order: Texas, California, New York, Michigan, Florida and Arizona.
In the ten year analysis, the Bhutanese (6,607) saw the highest number of their ethnic group settled in Ohio followed by Somalis (5,611). Iraqis were next with 2,617. Remember though that especially with the Somalis, Ohio likely saw the Somali number increase more rapidly as secondary migrants (resettled elsewhere in the US) went to mostly Columbus to join their fellow Somalis to establish a large Somali enclave there. The secondary migrants are not reflected in that 5,611 number.
The years with the highest number of Somalis resettled were 2005 and 2006 (Bush years!).
Most Somalis were resettled in Columbus (over 4,700 of the over 5,000) with Cleveland getting 322 directly resettled there from Africa. But, interestingly 21 other towns and cities got Somalis, albeit in smaller numbers.
Remember the Columbus subsidized housing riot in 2012! How would you like to see this in your home town?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVd3KsVFX8
The resettlement contractors and cities they are colonizing…
For new readers there are nine major federal contractors. Five of the nine dominate Ohio. Here is a handy list to find their contact information. (The ORR list is not just for Ohio, but for the whole country.)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants works in Akron, Cleveland
US Conference of Catholic Bishops works in Cleveland, Cincinatti and Dayton
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society works in Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo
Church World Service is in Columbus
World Relief is in Columbus
Go here for all of the posts we have written on Ohio over the years. They had a recent terrorist arrest case there (Somali of course!).
And be sure to see my previous post on employment outcomes for refugees. Ohio’s employment numbers are pretty abysmal!