Taxpayer bill to resettle 35,000 Mideast refugees: $2.3 billion

The Syrian civil war has caused 4 million refugees, with 400,000 targeted by the United Nations for resettlement outside the region. It costs U.S. taxpayers nearly $65,000 to resettle one Middle Eastern refugee over the first five years, which is 12 times what it would cost to care for that same refugee in a neighboring country…