U.N. sending thousands of Muslims to America:
"The federal government is preparing for another “surge” in refugees and this time they won’t be coming illegally from Central America.
The U.S. State Department announced this week that the first major contingent of Syrian refugees, 9,000 of them, have been hand-selected by the United Nations for resettlement into communities across the United States.
The announcement came Tuesday on the State Department’s website.
WND reported in September that Syrians would make up the next big wave of Muslim refugees coming to the U.S., as resettlement agencies were lobbying for the U.S. to accept at least 75,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years.
...The State Department announcement makes it clear that the 9,000 refugees represent just the beginning of an extended program to accept more Syrians.
“The United States accepts the majority of all UNHCR referrals from around the world.
Last year, we reached our goal of resettling nearly 70,000 refugees from nearly 70 countries.
And we plan to lead in resettling Syrians as well,” the statement reads.
“We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria.
We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond.”
...The State Department works to place refugees in 180 cities across 49 states."
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