This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, September 21st, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The US has agreed to take in additional refugees fleeing war in Syria.

It's not unprecedented, and it isn't even a particularly large

number compared with past flows of refugees to the United States.

Alex Narasta immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute discussed how the US should

handle the new refugees. So we had a lot of Bosnians in the mid 90s fleeing the

conflict in former US-Lavia in that area but in terms of like really, really big numbers, the United States took about a million Vietnamese in the 1970s over the course of several years and actually into the mid- the

1970s over the course of several years and actually into the mid 90s over a million Vietnamese.

All right, I mean it seems like an incredibly huge number.

Where did those people tend to settle?

So they mostly settled in Southern California, a lot in Orange County,

areas like that, but also in the Bay Area around San Francisco.

And you had pockets all over the place.

So you had refugees resettled in Florida,

in rural Florida of all places, some down in New Orleans

in that area along the Gulf Coast, New York,

and a lot among refugees in the upper Midwest in places like Minnesota around

the Twin Cities.

Now I recall there was a short documentary recently produced about the Hot Sauce

Chiracha.

And the gentleman who created Suracha was essentially doing so to create a product that would

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