U.S. Pressed to admit more Iraqi refugees

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(This story contains the mindbending chunk or Orwellian doublespeak that I've ever read).


By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff  |  January 17, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war has caused nearly 2 million Iraqis to flee their homeland but the United States has admitted only 466 refugees since the conflict began in 2003, leaving behind many Iraqis who worked for the US military and face constant death threats because of it, according to testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Iraqis who worked for US forces during the war as guides and translators told senators yesterday that many of their colleagues have been killed and others have been singled out by insurgents because the military depends on their help. The widow of a slain American journalist also said she has been stymied in her efforts to bring her husband's translator to the United States.

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Ramaci-Vincent said in a statement that she tried to help the translator immigrate to the United States, but "I have been told she does not qualify for refugee or asylum status because Iraq is now a democracy. Hence, there would be no reason she would need to flee."


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/01/17/us_pressed_to_admit_more_iraqi_refugees/

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1. Hummm, brown, middle eastern people?

We have a bunch of secure the border fanatics to get through first. What a huge humanitarian crisis we have created so Capitalism could thrive in the arms industry. Those poor people. God help them. Bush never will.