December 2011 - Archive
LA Times and NPR Focus on Iraqi Refugees
Yesterday on “Here & Now” NPR interviewed Alaa, who worked for western media organizations in Baghdad and who now works with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project in New York, and Hayder, a former translator who lost a leg saving an American soldier, about their thoughts on U.S. troop withdrawal. Alaa is deeply concerned to see, [...]
USCIS’s insufficiently urgent response: “We continue to refine and improve this process”
While USCIS continues to refine and improve the process of conducting security checks on Iraqi refugee and SIV applicants, Iraqis who worked for coalition forces, and even Iraqis connected to those who worked for coalition forces, wonder each day if the threats they continue to receive will again be carried out as they have been [...]
63 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Western officials feared that instability would worsen as U.S. troops left Iraq, but they hoped the political turmoil that was in the works even before the official withdrawal — with Shiite Prime Minister Maliki accusing Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi of running an assassination ring– would remain non-violent. Now mere days after the pullout, a series [...]
Stable and Self-reliant?
President Obama believes the U.S. is leaving behind a “stable and self-reliant Iraq.” But as Shiite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki demands that Kurdish leaders turn over Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, accused of ordering political assasinations (an accusation he denies) and threatens to exclude his Iraqiya rivals (a largely Sunni bloc of lawmakers) from a new majority [...]
Increased Security Checks Prevent Iraqis Who Aided U.S. Forces From Obtaining Visas
Several thousand Iraqis, PBS News reports, including many who helped the United States during the Iraq war, are caught in a grim race between death threats in their own country and the cumbersome process of obtaining a visa. As Becca Heller, IRAP director, points out, 5,000 visas have been set aside each year since 2008 [...]
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