Refugees are a vanishingly small portion of immigrants in the US. There are about 47 million immigrants living in the US[1] and about 267 thousand refugees[2].

Refugees are a vanishingly small portion of immigrants in the US. There are about 47 million immigrants living in the US[1] and about 267 thousand refugees[2]. There have been an average of more than a million people gaining permanent resident status each year for the past 20 years and less than 100 thousand refugees admitted each year for the same time period[3]. Even in the single highest year ever for refugee admittance, they were only about a quarter of immigrants. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_refugee_population#By_country_of_asylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_refugee_p... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States#Since_1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...