They are changing America by changing the people
We’ve written innumerable posts on this topic before but thought it was worth mentioning again, especially as we are always welcoming new readers. This conversation with Iraqi Ambassador Sumaida’ie occurred in December so I don’t know why it is being published here in March. The message is still applicable, perhaps even more so as the … Continue reading Iraqi ambassador: we need our people to come home
This is one more in a long series of articles we’ve posted about unhappy and unemployed Iraqi refugees in the United States, but what makes this one different is that one woman ventures a hypothesis for why they are here inspite of the lousy conditions and uncertainty in which they are living. The lead-in to the … Continue reading Iraqi refugee says she knows why they are brought here
…..to the US! The word has filtered back about the economic situation in the US at a time when life in Iraq is settling down to normal and these Iraqis interviewed by the Los Angeles Times have decided why risk it, why go to America now. Reporting from Baghdad — Raheem’s cellphone rang as we … Continue reading Iraqis: Even if we are accepted we have decided not to go….
…. but Mom is going home to Iraq. We first told you about Firas Taresh, an Iraqi man, who had been resettled on Long Island with his younger brother and mother back in September. His story about joblessness was among the first we posted on unemployed Iraqis. This is an update. He has a job. From … Continue reading Previously unhappy Iraqi refugee gets a job…
New city, same old story. This time we hear that there are no jobs for refugees, especially well-educated Iraqi refugees, in Fredericksburg, VA. About 100 Iraqis came to Fredericksburg this past year expecting to find “heaven.” They fled tumultuous situations in the Middle East. Among the new refugees: A doctor whose husband was killed as … Continue reading Iraqi refugee: “Do they bring us out here to help us or to humiliate us?”