Check out the statistics for the top ten languages spoken by refugees entering the US from FY2007-FY2012. There are great statistics at the Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing Center.
Tells you a lot about who is coming to America, doesn’t it! If you are curious about the number of Spanish speakers, those are mostly Cubans as we are still resettling them by the tens of thousands.
| Rank | Language | FY 2007 | FY 2008 | FY 2009 | FY 2010 | FY 2011 | FY 2012 | Total |
| 1 | Nepali | 3 | 5,302 | 13,450 | 12,355 | 14,993 | 15,113 | 61,216 |
| 2 | Arabic | 1,231 | 9,767 | 13,675 | 15,199 | 7,372 | 9,938 | 57,182 |
| 3 | Sgaw Karen | 4,084 | 7,460 | 3,327 | 5,832 | 6,518 | 4,148 | 31,369 |
| 4 | Somali | 6,607 | 2,403 | 3,879 | 4,787 | 3,057 | 4,763 | 25,496 |
| 5 | Spanish | 2,968 | 4,243 | 4,831 | 4,951 | 2,976 | 2,075 | 22,044 |
| 6 | Chaldean | 746 | 2,897 | 3,783 | 2,550 | 1,392 | 1,790 | 13,158 |
| 7 | Burmese | 2,378 | 3,769 | 2,040 | 1,414 | 1,290 | 1,146 | 12,037 |
| 8 | Armenian | 1,578 | 3,625 | 3,444 | 1,798 | 747 | 387 | 11,579 |
| 9 | Other Minor Languages | 3,008 | 1,787 | 1,913 | 1,666 | 673 | 1,006 | 10,053 |
| 10 | Kayah | 0 | 0 | 5,267 | 1,922 | 1,179 | 595 | 8,963 |
| Report Totals | 22,603 | 41,253 | 55,609 | 52,474 | 40,197 | 40,961 | 253,097 |