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After taking office, US President Donald Trump banned some refugees from entering the country, warning that refugees in some countries may pose a domestic security threat, making the United States an unfriendly country. At present, there are about 65 million refugees in the world, and European and American countries are facing an unprecedented influx of refugees. About 2 out of every 100 people in Switzerland are refugees, while in France and Canada, about 1 out of every 200 people are refugees, while the number of refugees accepted by the United States is less than 1/1000 of the national population.

The United States has counted about 85000 refugees in 2016. Trump has significantly reduced the number of refugees to half since taking office. Most of the refugees are women and children, and more than 70 percent are from Congo, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq, Somalia and other countries.

According to a report in the Financial Daily, the problem of refugees in the United States is not as serious or as dangerous as Trump said, and refugees may not necessarily pose a burden to the US economy. In some cases, the admission of refugees may even contribute to community development and benefit local residents.

A 2012 study on the follow-up development of refugees in Cleveland, Ohio, found that refugees often overcome the language barrier and find jobs in the first five months. Many of them have business acumen, start their own businesses and are more stable than many economic immigrants. In that year, for example, the city of Cleveland spent about $4.8 million on the resettlement of refugees, while the economic benefits returned to the local area by refugees in the same year were as high as $48 million.

Extracted from The Refugee Response Facebook

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