Obama isn’t just opening the southern border wide open to lure in future Democrat voters. Obama has granted a record number of Syrian Muslims asylum in this country.
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More than 800 individuals from Syria were granted asylum in 2013, the highest number since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began tracking such data, and 1,449 have been granted asylum since 2004, according to figures recorded by the federal government.
The likely explanation for the 2013 figures, the most recent year for which data is available from DHS, is the ongoing civil war in Syria, in which Iran and the Islamic State play key roles.
“The wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as armed conflicts, human rights violations and deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in other countries, pushed the number of asylum applications in industrialized countries to a 22-year high last year,” the United Nations reported in March of this year.
“In the 1990s, the Balkan wars created hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers, said Antonio Guterres, the U.S. refugee commissioner. “Many of them found refuge in industrialized countries in Europe, North America and elsewhere.”