Where refugees in Idaho are arriving from
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Where refugees in Idaho are arriving from
Within the first five months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early February 2022, the U.S. admitted more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Most of these refugees were admitted through a special program called humanitarian parole, which falls outside the scope of the data tracking carried out by the Refugee Processing Center. Humanitarian parole allows refugees who meet certain criteria to gain temporary legal status in the U.S. and applications are processed differently than traditional refugee resettlement applications.
In January 2023, the greatest number of refugees admitted by the U.S. came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each nation struggles with a unique set of circumstances that can make their citizens unsafe if they stay in their home country.
For the last three decades, the DRC has been struggling with a vast humanitarian crisis that has left millions of people displaced, both internally and externally, with many people fleeing to neighboring countries. Syria has seen nearly 7 million refugees leave the country since 2011 while a longstanding civil war rages and has displaced an additional nearly 7 million people internally. Afghan refugees have been fleeing to neighboring countries for decades, especially Pakistan and Iran, which combined host nearly 2 million Afghans.
Stacker referenced data from The Refugee Processing Center to compile statistics on the number of refugees and their countries of origin resettled in Idaho in January 2023.
January refugee statistics
Countries where refugees arrived from in January
Idaho
#1. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 27
#2. Eritrea: 8
#3. Ethiopia: 2
National
#1. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 752
#2. Afghanistan: 284
#3. Syria: 284
#4. Burma: 264
#5. Colombia: 193
States that accepted the most refugees in January
#1. Texas: 194
#2. Kentucky: 176
#3. California: 163
#4. Pennsylvania: 139
#5. Ohio: 127
Read on to see the countries that Idaho has accepted the most refugees from since January 2023
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#1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
Refugees that arrived from Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 2023
Idaho: 118
National: 2,555
Top states
#1. Kentucky: 277
#2. Texas: 233
#3. Ohio: 189
#4. Arizona: 141
#5. Michigan: 123
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#2. Sudan
Refugees that arrived from Sudan since January 2023
Idaho: 33
National: 212
Top states
#1. Idaho: 33
#2. California: 19
#2. New York: 19
#4. Kansas: 18
#5. Nebraska: 17
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#3. Eritrea
Refugees that arrived from Eritrea since January 2023
Idaho: 11
National: 216
Top states
#1. New York: 23
#2. Tennessee: 22
#3. lowa: 15
#4. Washington: 14
#4. Ohio: 14
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#4. Burma
Refugees that arrived from Burma since January 2023
Idaho: 8
National: 1,170
Top states
#1. Wisconsin: 238
#2. Texas: 113
#3. Indiana: 110
#4. New York: 107
#5. Illinois: 66
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#5. Burundi
Refugees that arrived from Burundi since January 2023
Idaho: 6
National: 57
Top states
#1. Pennsylvania: 10
#2. Kentucky: 8
#3. New York: 6
#3. Idaho: 6
#3. Texas: 6
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#6. Republic of South Sudan
Refugees that arrived from Republic of South Sudan since January 2023
Idaho: 5
National: 97
Top states
#1. Tennessee: 16
#2. North Carolina: 15
#3. New York: 11
#4. Kansas: 10
#4. Utah: 10
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#7. Afghanistan
Refugees that arrived from Afghanistan since January 2023
Idaho: 2
National: 1,192
Top states
#1. California: 226
#2. Texas: 139
#3. Virginia: 134
#4. Washington: 87
#5. New York: 68
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#7. Ethiopia
Refugees that arrived from Ethiopia since January 2023
Idaho: 2
National: 101
Top states
#1. Minnesota: 44
#2. lowa: 12
#3. Texas: 10
#4. Washington: 7
#4. Georgia: 7
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#7. Somalia
Refugees that arrived from Somalia since January 2023
Idaho: 2
National: 174
Top states
#1. Minnesota: 54
#2. Ohio: 19
#3. New York: 13
#4. Georgia: 12
#5. Pennsylvania: 10
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#10. Iraq
Refugees that arrived from Iraq since January 2023
Idaho: 1
National: 127
Top states
#1. Michigan: 31
#2. North Carolina: 9
#2. Texas: 9
#2. Ohio: 9
#2. Massachusetts: 9
