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10,126: Administration Hits Syria Refugee Target; 0.5% Are Christians
August 29, 2016 | (Update: As of midafternoon eastern time on Monday 224 new Syrian refugee arrivals have been reported. That lifts the total this fiscal year to 10,126, of whom 52 or 0.51 percent are Christians; and 9,945 or 98.2 percent, are Sunni Muslims.)
The Obama administration is expected on Monday – a month ahead of schedule – to achieve its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year. As of late Sunday, 9,902 had been resettled in the United States, but more than 200 more are expected to arrive from Jordan and surrounding areas over the next day. U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells told reporters the 10,000 target announced by President Obama last September will be reached on Monday. Barring an unlikely last-minute shift, the number of Christians among the 10,000 will be less than half of one percent. Of the 9,902 before Monday’s arrivals, just 47 (0.47 percent) are Christians, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.

The vast majority of the Syrian refugees permitted to resettle in the United States are Sunni Muslims – 9,726 of the 9,902, or 98.2 percent. Another 20 are Shi’a Muslims, and a further 85 are identified in the data simply as Muslims. The 47 Christians comprise seven Catholics, four Protestants, six Orthodox, one Greek Orthodox and 29 refugees self-reported simply as “Christian.” Apart from the Muslims and Christians, others admitted during FY 2016 are 14 Yazidis, four Jehovah’s Witnesses, five refugees identified as “other religion,” and one as having “no religion.” The drawn-out and complex Syrian civil war, which began with a crackdown on dissent in March 2011, has seen numerous act of terror and evident war crimes committed by the Assad regime and its allies, Islamist extremists and other combatants. Millions of Syrians have fled their homeland.

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The number of Syrian refugees admitted since the start of FY 2016 has increased significantly since June.​

Obama announced last fall that the U.S. would admit 10,000 refugees from Syria during the fiscal year – a six-fold increase from the total 1,682 admissions in FY 2015, which in turn was up from a mere 105 in FY 2014 and 36 in FY 2013. The initiative took off slowly: By the end of January – one-third of the way through FY 2016 – only 841 Syrian refugees had been admitted. Then in February the State Department set up a refugee resettlement “surge” center in Amman, Jordan, drastically reducing application processing times. Between February and April, Department of Homeland Security officers carried out interviews in Jordan with around 12,000 Syrian refugee applicants referred by the U.N. refugee agency, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard told a briefing earlier this month. She described the screening as “rigorous and exhaustive.”

The “surge” saw the pace of admissions gradually quicken: After just 330 admissions in March and 451 in April, the number jumped to 1,069 in May, 2,406 in June and 2,340 in July. So far, August has brought a further 2,351 Syrian refugee admissions, but by month’s end on Wednesday the number is expected to exceed 2,600, surpassing June’s monthly record high. And if the admissions continue at a similar pace, by the time FY 2016 ends on September 30 the year’s total could well exceed 11,000.

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Soros puttin' his money where his mouth is...
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George Soros to invest $500M to assist refugees
Sept. 20, 2016 -- Billionaire investor George Soros has pledged up to $500 million in investments to assist refugees and migrants worldwide.
The 85-year-old owner of Soros Fund Management said Tuesday the investments will be owned by his nonprofit organizations and the profits will go to his Open Society Foundations, a network of causes supporting issues that include education, human rights, migration and health. "We will invest in startups, established companies, social impact initiatives, and businesses started by migrants and refugees themselves," Soros said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article published online Tuesday. "Although my main concern is to help migrants and refugees arriving in Europe, I will be looking for good investment ideas that will benefit migrants all over the world." The announcement came during an ongoing United Nations summit in New York on the crisis. Before President Barack Obama's address to the U.N. on Tuesday, the White House announced 51 corporations, including Facebook, Twitter, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, have committed $650 million to help refugees.

Soros said the investments in the companies "are intended to be successful — because I want to show how private capital can play a constructive role helping migrants — and any profits will go to fund programs at the Open Society Foundations, including programs that benefit migrants and refugees." Soros said he will work with organizations that include the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Rescue Committee to establish investment principles. "Our collective failure to develop and implement effective policies to handle the increased flow has contributed greatly to human misery and political instability — both in countries people are fleeing and in the countries that host them, willingly or not," Soros wrote. "Migrants are often forced into lives of idle despair, while host countries fail to reap the proven benefit that greater integration could bring."

Soros noted governments should play a key role but also said the "power of the private sector" is critical. "I hope my commitment will inspire other investors to pursue the same mission," he said. In its announcement, the White House said, the companies "are standing with the administration to demonstrate that private sector innovation and resources can have a durable impact on refugees residing in countries on the frontlines of the global refugee crisis and in countries of resettlement, like the United States." The White House noted the companies have pledged employment opportunities for more than 220,000 refugees, through mentorship, training, internships and job placements. Also, they have pledged education opportunities for more than 80,000 refugees.

The United Nations Relief Agency calculated that a record 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced in 2015 compared with 59.5 million the previous year and more than half from just three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. More than 300,000 refugees and migrants crossed the dangerous Mediterranean sea to Europe so far this year, according to figures released by U.N. agency on Tuesday. "Refugees need access to financial and legal services, education, and employment opportunities; we believe the private sector is uniquely placed to help build the infrastructure needed to support these services," the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said about Soros' investment. Soros' net worth is $24.9 billion, according to Forbes.

George Soros to invest $500M to assist refugees
 

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