[ti:Somali-American Community Concerned After Ohio State Attack] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]¸ü¶àÌýÁ¦Çë·ÃÎÊ51VOA.COM [00:01.88]Last month, a student at Ohio State University [00:07.52]ran into people with a car and stabbed them with a knife. [00:14.04]The victims survived, but police shot and killed the attacker, [00:20.64]Abdul Razak Ali Artan, at the place the incident happened. [00:27.92]Since then, members of the Muslim community [00:32.24]have been trying to understand what made Artan carry out such violence. [00:40.24]Artan was a Somali refugee who came to the U.S. with his family in 2014. [00:49.06]He had been a successful student. [00:53.20]He earned honors at a local community college before going to Ohio State, [01:00.40]one of America's largest universities. [01:04.88]Officials at the mosque near the family's home say Artan was not well-known to them. [01:12.96]They add that they are concerned that others may judge the entire community [01:19.84]by the actions of one young man. [01:23.76]Robert Fitrakis is a lawyer representing Artan's family. [01:30.04]He describes how the family fears the political climate in the United States. [01:37.04]"I'm not sure they want their face on camera," he says. [01:43.52]Mohamud Mohamed Ahmed is a member of the Muslim community [01:49.32]at Abubakar Assiddiq mosque in Columbus. [01:54.28]"I've been in this country 25 years, so we are Americans, [01:58.68]but we are Muslim, too. [02:00.32]We should not be viewed as people who came from another planet. [02:07.24]We are not aliens. We are citizens of this country." [02:11.88]The issue of refugees and migration [02:15.84]has become an important political issue in the United States. [02:22.04]Supporters of strict immigration policy say the attack shows [02:28.44]the danger that immigrants, or refugees, could present. [02:34.80]Earlier this month, for example, [02:38.28]President-elect Trump said the attack at Ohio State University [02:44.32]was "yet one more tragic reminder that immigration security is now national security." [02:53.64]However, refugee resettlement supporters [02:57.92]point to the need to help people from conflict areas around the world. [03:05.04]Becca Heller is the director of the International Refugee Assistance Project. [03:12.28]She criticized the words used by Trump in an interview with NPR news. [03:19.84]"That rhetoric has had an impact. [03:23.04]Trump has been successful in politicizing refugee admissions [03:28.44]in a way that they have not been politicized before." [03:33.52]The number of refugees admitted to the United States has increased since 2002. [03:41.88]However, the number of refugees admitted to the U.S reached [03:48.28]"historically low levels" in the year following the September 11 attacks in 2001. [03:57.64]A report by Congressional Research Services, or CRS, [04:03.00]says that 27,131 refugees were allowed into the country in that year. [04:12.72]The number of refugees admitted in 2017 could reach 110,000, the CRS report says. [04:23.36]Any possible changes to immigration and refugee policy [04:28.52]remain unclear as the Trump administration begins on January 20. [04:35.41]I'm John Russell.