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The Associated Press reports: BRUSSELS, Belgium — If the security situation in Iraq continues to improve, the number of refugees and displaced people returning to their homes could more than double this year to 500,000, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday. After years of extreme violence Iraq is now experiencing markedly improved security, said Daniel Endres, … Continue reading UN says Iraqi refugees will be returning home in droves
That is the title of a story on Tampabay.com a news source affiliated with the St. Petersburg Times. However, since some of the other numbers in the article are wrong, I’m guessing “thousands” of Iraqis will not be coming to Florida real soon. I’ll get to that in a bit. Here is how the article begins: MIAMI … Continue reading Thousands of Iraqi refugees headed to Florida
Surely you know the ladies at Codepink—you see them, dressed in pink, protesting for peace in unpeaceful ways. Well, they have a blog (of course) called Pink Tank and this article popped up in my alerts yesterday. The blogger reporting from Jordan tells a tale of a Sunni Muslim family wishing to get into the US (you … Continue reading Codepink blogger: Iraqi refugees need lawyers
Ken Bacon, who last appeared on Refugee Resettlement Watch in November, ridiculously urging President-Elect Obama to bring in more than 100,000 Iraqi refugees in one year, seems to have come to his senses since then. On December 22 he posted a good entry on his organization’s blog titled “The Risk of Radicalized Refugees.” Bacon is the head of Refugees International, the lobbying arm of the … Continue reading Keep Iraqi refugees from becoming radicalized: help them go home
A very short item from the Associated Press tells us: PORTLAND, Maine. Some 200 Iraqi refugees are headed for Maine in the coming months. Catholic Charities Maine says these so-called ”secondary migrants” had previously found homes in other states but expressed a desire to move to Portland in order to join an Iraqi family that … Continue reading 200 Iraqi refugees headed to Maine from elsewhere in U.S.