Syrian Refugee arrivals in the United States Data Viz

The war in Syria has killed over 500,000 people, and has left just over 12 million displaced with over 5 million fleeing to neighboring countries. Turkey has taken in over 3 million Syrian refugees (the majority of the misplaced fleeing to different countries), alongside Germany who took in about 1.2 million Syrians. However, the United States has fluctuated in numbers, and doesn’t serve nearly as many Syrians as the rest of Europe has. Since the start of the war in 2011, very few Syrians came to the US for refuge, understandably due to distance and the amount of resources it would take to get to America. Yet, towards the end of Obama’s presidency, the US took in far more numbers than they had from then to the start of the war (over 12,000 people). Although, when Trump got elected in 2016, many anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas circulated throughout the US, provoking border control. This caused a significant decrease in the number of Syrians arriving to the United States by an entire half in 2017. By the end of Trump’s presidency and the COVID-19 pandemic, only roughly 1,500 Syrian immigrants came within the span of 4 years. However, when Biden came into presidency, numbers immediately began to increase back into the thousands, and in one year alone, 2022, 4,556 Syrians arrived in the US.