1. Since 1975, the U.S. has resettled over 3 million refugees, with
annual admissions figures ranging from a high of 207,000 in 1980 to a
low of 27,110 in 2002 (in the aftermath of 911) .
The average number of refugees admitted annually since 1980 is about
98,000. Additionally, in recent years, another 40,000 or more per year
come in as asylum seekers and Cuban/Haitian entrants – all with the same
rights and entitlements as refugees.
All these flows detonate their own chain migration flows in addition
to the refugee influx. These follow-on flows have easily multiplied the
original admission numbers by a factor of 4 or more.
The quota for 2013 is 70,000 and it looks like it will be met this
year. There is strong political pressure to get refugee numbers back to
over 100,000.
