U.S Admitted More Christian Refugees In The Last 15 Years - Research

A new report has shown that Muslim refugees to the United States, whose numbers have recently increased, have still been far outpaced by Christians refugees over the last decade and a half, thanks th the Trump lead administration which continues to enforce a travel ban affecting six Muslim-majority and other countries.

Most of the refugees are accepted by California, Texas and New York.

A Pew Research Center report tracking the influx of displaced people finds that 47 percent of refugee arrivals in fiscal 2017 were Christian and 43 percent were Muslim. In the previous fiscal year, a record number of Muslim refugees were admitted. "46 percent of refugees entering this country were Muslim, compared with 44 percent who were Christians," Pew said in the report.

“Even with the recent rise in the number of Muslim refugees, far more Christian than Muslim refugees have been admitted into the U.S. since fiscal 2002,” writes Phillip Connor, a senior researcher with Pew.

It was discovered that 15-year period, about 425,000 Christian refugees crossed U.S. borders, making up 46 percent of refugee arrivals while 33 percent, or about 302,000 Muslim refugees were admitted. Also, 170,000 refugees of other religions entered the U.S. during the period under review, including about 55,000 Hindus (mostly from Bhutan) and about 50,000 Buddhists (mostly from Burma and Bhutan). In addition, more than 20,000 with no religious affiliation, mostly from Vietnam and Cuba, entered the U.S. between the fiscal years of 2002 and 2017.

In those 15 years, Christian arrivals represented nearly two dozen branches of Christianity, such as Armenian Christian and Ukrainian Orthodox. Those of non-Christian and non-Muslim faiths included Hare Krishnas and Zoroastrians.

The Pew findings were based on analyses of reports from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.S. State Department.

Alarming ther findings about refugees entering the United States from 2002-2017 show that they increasingly come from the Middle East and Africa and they speak Arabic more than any other language.