July refugee admission have put this country pace for a record low of admissions this year. Finally, some good news.
| July refugee admissions on pace for record low this year |
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A total of 1,984 refugees were admitted into the United States in the month of July, bringing the number arriving in the country for the first ten months of FY 2018 to 18,214.
Should that rate of refugee arrivals continue for the final two months of the fiscal year, the total number of refugees admitted to the United States for FY 2018 will be less than 23,000, the lowest annual admission level in the more than three decades since the enabling legislation, the Refugee Act of 1980, was passed by Congress and signed into law by former President Jimmy Carter.The majority of July’s refugee admissions–1,013–came from a single country: the Democratic Republic of Congo.