They are changing America by changing the people
In our earlier post this morning, we reported that the US State Department is going to begin bringing in Syrians (at the UN’s direction) on par with what we have done for Iraqis. That reminded me that I wanted to pull together the Iraqi resettlement data. We are on our way, as this fiscal year … Continue reading How many Iraqi refugees came to America since 9/11? How are they doing?
The United Nations is working overtime to figure out what the heck to do with millions of Afghans that Pakistan wants out of their country NOW! (see ‘Why can’t Muslim countries keep them?’) so they have apparently been ignoring a small group of Iraqi Kurds that want out of Pakistan. Here is the whole short … Continue reading UNHCR discriminates against Iraqi refugees in Pakistan
Update April 11th: Yikes! Here is another story that says Iraqi refugees in the US have a 67% unemployment rate, so hey Grover Norquist, champion of Open Borders for Business, hire an Iraqi (after all Americans get jobs that is)! Over and over and over again we have heard the refrain for weeks (for months!)—we … Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture? Thousands swarm the Hill looking for amnesty while Iraqi refugees in Massachusetts find no work
Following the increasingly common refrain—we broke it, we own it—19 Members of Congress earlier this month wrote to President Obama seeking his leadership in extending the deadline for the so-called Special Immigrant Visa program for Iraqis and Afghans who ‘helped us’ when we sought to give them a free country. I thought we succeeded, isn’t … Continue reading Members of Congress: We need more Iraqi refugees (Afghans too)
Since we are on the subject of immigrants with untreated mental illness (see yesterday’s horrifying story from the Boston Globe), this story from Newsweek about Iraqi refugees struggling in Michigan fits right in. Although Iraq is now governed by a democratically elected government that we gave them at a very high cost to America in … Continue reading No jobs, mental illness plague Iraqi refugees in Dearborn, MI