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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
A More Just Refugee Admissions Procedure
Read IRAP’s op-ed on refugee access to legal counsel appearing in the Christian Science Monitor here. Refugees applying for resettlement to the United States face an unknown and complicated legal system. Applications are written in English, the legal standards are entirely foreign, and important documentation may be missing or difficult to obtain for refugees who have [...]
“Whatever one’s views of this war, we should agree that our country has a responsibility to Iraqi interpreters”
Joe Coon, an Iraq War veteran, writes in the Oregonian about the struggle he went through to get his former interpreter and close friend, Bandar, safely to the United States on a Special Immigrant Visa. Far beyond following the simple steps set forth in the SIV procedure guidelines, it was only through arduous paperwork, a [...]
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