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Patrick Goodenough<\/strong>
CNS News<\/a>
February 16, 2017<\/p>\n

(CNSNews.com) \u2013 Sixty percent of the refugees admitted into the United States since a federal judge halted President Trump\u2019s executive order designed to prevent \u201cforeign terrorist entry into the United States\u201d originate from five of the seven countries identified by the administration and its predecessor as most risky.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the total 2,576 refugees resettled in the U.S. from around the world since U.S. District Judge James Robart\u2019s February 3 restraining order, 1,549 (60.1 percent) are from Syria (532), Iraq (472), Somalia (363), Iran (117), and Sudan (65). No refugees have arrived from the other two applicable countries, Yemen and Libya.<\/p>\n

Of the 2,576 refugees to have arrived since Feb. 3, 1,424 (55.3 percent) are Muslims \u2013 817 Sunnis, 132 Shi\u2019ites, and 475 refugees self-identified simply as Muslims, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.<\/p>\n

Of the refugees hailing from the specified countries of terrorist concern, Muslims accounted for the overwhelming majority of those admitted in all cases except for Iran.<\/p>\n

Muslims comprised 99.6 percent of the admissions from Syria; 73.5 percent of those from Iraq; 99.7 percent of those from Somalia; and 93.8 percent of those from Sudan. Of the Iranian refugees admitted, by contrast, only 9.4 percent were Muslims, while just under 60 percent were Christians of various denominations.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Jan. 27 order barred entry to the U.S. of all refugees for 120 days; prohibited entry to refugees from Syria indefinitely; and blocked all entry \u2013 immigrant and non-immigrant \u2013 by nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen for 90 days.<\/p>\n

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