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Advocacy groups are gearing up for a big push to pressure Congress and the Administration to bring more Iraqi refugees to the US. Another bigwig pow-wow (see first bigwig pow-wow here) is set for April 14th in Washington where speakers will be priming the audience to hit Congress with a two day lobbying campaign. It’s spring … Continue reading Last day to sign up to lobby for more Iraqi refugees to come to the US
Barbara Day, domestic resettlement section chief at the State Department, speaking at a refugee conference in Phoenix, Arizona this week gave the audience some interesting information. She said that the US had resettled over 12,000 Iraqi refugees already in the first half of the fiscal year which began on October 1, 2007. The goal for the entire fiscal … Continue reading Iraqi refugees arriving fast and furious now
Update April 3, 2008: Here is link for the program tomorrow. And, also read this excellent discussion of the Refugee Resettlement program at Frontpage magazine where national refugee expert, Don Barnett, discusses reforms proposed by David Martin and others. The Matthew J. Ryan Public Policy Forum will bring together on Friday in Washington, DC a … Continue reading Iraqi refugees: pow-wow of bigwig advocates this week in DC
So where have you been Washington Post? Just today (five days after RRW) the Washington Post reports on the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iraqi refugees. See our coverage last Wednesday here. This is how the reporter, Walter Pincus, begins his report: A House hearing last Tuesday led to an unusual discussion about U.S. obligations to … Continue reading More on Congressional Hearing on Iraqi refugees
Your tax dollars: This is the third in a series of posts on the State Department Iraqi Refugee Briefing of February 4, see Part II yesterday. The exchange that follows occured in the briefing right after the question about exactly how many Iraqi displaced persons are coming in this fiscal year that ends September 30th. We heard it was 12,000 … Continue reading State Dept. Briefing on Iraqi Refugees, Part III, “How much is this?”