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Title: U.S. Will Speed Entry Of Refugees From Iraq (12,000 to Be Admitted in the Next Year)
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Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy ... /09/21/AR2007092101333_pf.html
Published: Sep 22, 2007
Author: By Paul Lewis Washington Post Staff Writ
Post Date: 2007-09-22 16:13:43 by Zipporah
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Comments: 19
Officials Say New Measures Will Allow 12,000 to Be Admitted in the Next Year Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 22, 2007; A10 About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday. The new target represents an increase in the number and pace of Iraqi refugees entering the country and means that 17 percent of the 70,000 refugees expected to be admitted next year will come from Iraq, officials from the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security told reporters. An estimated 4 million Iraqis have been displaced and about 2.2 million have fled the country, mainly to Syria and Jordan, since the March 2003 U.S. invasion. Tens of thousands of those are believed to have left after they were targeted because of their work for U.S. or coalition authorities. In February, State Department officials promised to expand their commitment to Iraqi refugees, but long delays in reviewing applications have drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers, refugee groups and senior diplomats. Officials said that of the 11,000 refugee applicants referred to the United States by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, only 1,135 have been admitted. More are scheduled to enter before the end of the month, but officials acknowledged that they will probably fall short of the State Department's target of 2,000 arrivals this fiscal year. The Bush administration announced on Wednesday the appointment of two senior officials who will work to improve the government's response to the Iraqi refugee crisis. Immigration law expert Lori Scialabba was appointed as a senior adviser at the Homeland Security Department, and diplomat James B. Foley will become the State Department's senior coordinator for Iraqi refugee issues. Yesterday's announcement was received with caution by some lawmakers. They said the administration has an obligation to protect many more Iraqis whose lives have been endangered because of their work for U.S. or coalition authorities. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said the administration's performance has been "slow and halting," and he promised to press ahead with legislative reforms to U.S. refugee programs. "America has an obligation to help those who are persecuted, especially those who have the assassin's target on their back because of their association with our government," he said. But administration officials defended their record at yesterday's briefing, saying that before February there was no program in the region to handle the unexpected flood of Iraqi refugees. "We had to literally build programs in Syria and Jordan," said Terry Rusch, who directs the office of admissions in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. She added that the refugee program has "accelerated dramatically" now that resources are in place. Paul Rosenzweig, deputy assistant secretary for policy at Homeland Security, described the government's efforts over the past six months as "heroic." "You show me another government program that goes from a standing start, ground zero, to full on in six months," he said. Of the 4,300 Iraqi refugees interviewed by his department this fiscal year, he said, 753 have been rejected for reasons including criminal records and inconsistencies in their stories. The officials conceded continued difficulty in processing cases in Syria, where a number of U.S. officials have been denied entry visas. "Not only has DHS not been able to get in to do more adjudications, but we have not been able to expand our own processing staff at the pace we would normally have done because of restrictions by the government of Syria," Rusch said. Syria has absorbed 1.5 million Iraqi refugees -- by far the most of any nation. But since September 2006, only 208 have been admitted to the United States after being processed in that country.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Ha! Why am I not surprised to read that this guy works as "deputy assistant secretary for policy at Fatherland Stasi Dept" and that he crows about the "heroic" efforts to admit 12,000 Iraqis of the 2 Million we have displaced for the benefit of Israel/Exxon/Haliburton. And how many Russian Jewish "refugees" do we admit to the US every year Mr. Rosenzweig?
I suggest they all be made at home in NYC.
"We had to literally build programs in Syria and Jordan," said Terry Rusch, who directs the office of admissions in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. She added that the refugee program has "accelerated dramatically" now that resources are in place. This is so laughable, although sad. Just another case of TPTB not bothering to plan ahea I guess with all that candy, flowers, and kisses being tossed around, no one was able to see the downside of hundreds of thousands of people trying to get the hell away from danger! No one could have foretold, since the very first batches began fleeing from Iraq that we would be taking in some refugees? That we should have a process in place to help in the processing and disbursements of these people? I have a bridge............yeah, its in the desert, but its so reasonably priced, I just have to offer it to ya..... Gawd. After all, who woulda ever thunk there would be suicidal dive bombers into planes, trains, and automobiles.....or skyscrapers! Or there would be hurricanes to wipe out poorly designed and built levees causing thousands upon thousands to be stranded without food, water, lodging, and the like. Oh.......I know who would..........the same idiots that parked ice all the way in Idaho to be prepared for disasters in the gulf coast states!
..I agree.. Iraq is facing a cholera epidemic.. and why is that? Gosh could it be that they dont have any potable water? AND just why might that be?? Sure wasnt b/c there werent enough funds PAID BY US for reconstruction.. the war has destroyed Iraq from top to bottom.. so what do they see as the answer? Bring the refugees to AMERICA!! The land of the free.. hmm....
.. heck it's kill two birds with one stone.. destroy one country and then try for two..
Zip... Set all of them up in business on Delancy St. and make them wards of Mayor Bloomberg.
..because?
Is our commander in chief retarded? We're bringing thousands of people from one of the most corrupt countries in the world to here? (BTW - this isn't sarcasm.)
"I've even suggested that we follow the constitution." Its all insane, from my POV! How many times do we have to pay for repairing and rebuilding infrastructure, buying cooperation, paying off 'informants', buying silence, buying 'nothing', before we get the rest of that nation's poor citizens installed over here with our latest batch of illegals?
Good suggestion! Ha! No doubt there's bound to be a few "disgruntled" Iraqis within that group and what more appropriate place for them to work off their "conflicted feelings" about the price of "being liberated" than in the city where all the "liberation" schemers live. What's that German phrase that means just desserts?
True if you take Bush's word re Iraq.. terrorists, al Qaeda etc.. then why would we bring them here?
..the more the merrier? :P
Ya see...history repeats itself...we break it, we take them...it's like after the Vietnam War and all the boat people we were so fortunate to inherit as the consequences of sticking our noses into a foreign nation and starting a war there...
See my post #13. The UN has certain rules about what happens when an aggressor nation plows into another sovereign nation and displaces its residents - refugee resettlement is the polite term that describes the aggressor nation's obligation. The DC douchbags have been putting off the inevitable. Refugee resettlement is yet another minor detail that the congresscritters and dubya omitted telling us would happen if we started an illegal war.
Put them all in deecee.
Oh yeah......don't even get me going on that! I can remember back in the 'fighting the county budget' days in Montana when we found out what all the $$$$$ for translators were for. Seems as though the federales parked a Hmong community in the county and we had the privilege of paying for translators.
An estimated 4 million Iraqis have been displaced Old man Bush brought a bunch of them here after Gulf War I ... then we started having arabs (patsies) involved in terrorist attacks ... go figure. (WTC I and OKC).
"The mighty are only mighty because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" --Camille Desmoulins
I see what you mean. :( Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . . "I've even suggested that we follow the constitution." heck it's kill two birds with one stone.. destroy one country and then try for two.. Bingo. Someone should be tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail. About 500 or so people in the Capitol including the one in the WH and a couple other "adminsitration hacks."
Law Enforcement Against ProhibitionPaul Rosenzweig, deputy assistant secretary for policy at Homeland Security, described the government's efforts over the past six months as "heroic."
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
(Edited)
But administration officials defended their record at yesterday's briefing, saying that before February there was no program in the region to handle the unexpected flood of Iraqi refugees.
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#4. To: rowdee (#3)
#5. To: scrapper2 (#1)
#6. To: Zipporah (#4)
Bring the refugees to AMERICA!! The land of the free.. hmm....
#7. To: Cynicom (#6)
Set all of them up in business on Delancy St. and make them wards of Mayor Bloomberg.
#8. To: Zipporah (#5)
(Edited)
.. heck it's kill two birds with one stone.. destroy one country and then try for two..
"I believe in spreading democracy, not with guns but rather by example."
- Dr. Ron Paul
#9. To: Zipporah (#4)
#10. To: Cynicom (#2)
I suggest they all be made at home in NYC.
#11. To: tzf90 (#8)
#12. To: rowdee (#9)
#13. To: rowdee (#9)
(Edited)
Its all insane, from my POV! How many times do we have to pay for repairing and rebuilding infrastructure, buying cooperation, paying off 'informants', buying silence, buying 'nothing', before we get the rest of that nation's poor citizens installed over here with our latest batch of illegals?
#14. To: Zipporah, tzf90 (#12)
#15. To: Zipporah (#0)
#16. To: scrapper2 (#13)
#17. To: scrapper2 (#1)
Ha! Why am I not surprised to read that this guy works as "deputy assistant secretary for policy at Fatherland Stasi Dept" and that he crows about the "heroic" efforts to admit 12,000 Iraqis of the 2 Million we have displaced for the benefit of Israel/Exxon/Haliburton.
#18. To: scrapper2 (#14)
See my post #13. The UN has certain rules about what happens when an aggressor nation plows into another sovereign nation and displaces its residents - refugee resettlement is the polite term that describes the aggressor nation's obligation. The DC douchbags have been putting off the inevitable. Refugee resettlement is yet another minor detail that the congresscritters and dubya omitted telling us would happen if we started an illegal war.
- James Madison
"I believe in spreading democracy, not with guns but rather by example."
- Dr. Ron Paul
#19. To: Zipporah (#5)
About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
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