KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) � The U.S. State Department says Missouri is expected to receive 1,200 Afghanistan evacuees from a first group arriving for resettlement in the United States.
State department data obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday detailed how a first group of 37,000 arrivals will be resettled in each state.
According to the data from the AP, Illinois will receive 860 evacuees, Kentucky will receive 850 and Tennessee will house 415 evacuees.
California is projected to take more arrivals than any other � more than 5,200 people, followed by Texas who will receive more than 4,400 evacuees.
to see a state by state breakdown of the arrivals.
The arrivals fled from Afghanistan when the U.S. ended its long war there and withdrew last month.
President Joe Biden's administration has asked Congress for funding to resettle 65,000 Afghans by the end of this month and 95,000 by September of next year.
