Can’t Stay Put, Can’t Go Home… Can’t Move On?
Rev. Robert Chase, in an op-ed for Newsday, calls on Americans to remember, even as we rejoice in scenes of returning soldiers, the four million displaced Iraqis left behind. Chase issues “a challenge to all Americans to advocate for a humane and realistic resettlement policy that acknowledges what exists and seeks to do something about [...]
The Troops Can Come Home, But the Refugees Can’t
City Limits interviews IRAP translator and journalist Alaa Majeed and IRAP director Becca Heller about the challenges facing Iraqis who helped U.S. forces– the threats they receive in Iraq, the difficulties of resettling in the U.S. amid a massive security check backlog, and, for the lucky few who make it, the adjustment to a new [...]
IRAP in the Boston Herald: U.S. Inaction Betrays Iraqi Allies
In an op-ed appearing in today’s Boston Herald, Matias Sueldo and Natlie Bowlus outline the immediate steps that the Obama administration should take to fix a broken SIV admissions system and make good on the promise the United States made to our Iraqi allies– a promise embodied in the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act of [...]
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 [...]
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