US to surge 17,000 Iraqi refugees into America for resettlement

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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOI-7KAM6G?OpenDocument

Date: 10 Oct 2008

GENEVA, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- US Assistant Secretary of State Samuel Witten told reporters Friday that the US is expected to receive in 2009 at least 17,000 Iraqi refugees for resettlement. He added, in a news conference today, at the conclusion of the meetings of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), that the US has received in fiscal year 2008 which ended on 30 September 13,823 Iraqi refugees for resettlement, figures that surpasses the target which had been set for only 12,000. Witten said that the State Department had contributed on 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008 the record sum of USD 1.44 billion to help refugees, conflict victims, stateless persons and vulnerable migrants around the world. snip

[maxsolomon]

1. i sure hope we're only takin' them iraqi christians!

otherwise we might become a MUSLIN nation! :sarcasm:

[jwirr]

2. My personal feelings are neutral on this issue but I want to know who

will end up with the blame for it? Are they going to come during *ss's term?

[annabanana]

3. Jeez. . We made their country nearly uninhabitable... it's the

LEAST we can do. THERE'S some numbers you don't see in corpomedia much.. the huge numbers of displaced Iraqi's living in tents in the deserts and slums of Syria & Jordan. .

[Demobrat]

4. Great. I hope they all have large families,

move in next to crotchety old Freepers and let their kids run wild all over said Freepers' lawns.

[Middle finga]

5. that's a small number compared to the millions that are displaced.

conservatives shouldn't complain since it was their war that brought them here.

[stillcool]

6. I was too young ...

to see how the Vietnamese assimilated after they lost their country to American bombs. I hope the Iraqi's can find a safe haven here, and find some peace.

[rucky]

7. John McCain has some houses sitting empty.

just sayin'

[jimshoes]

8. The repiglicans who love this war

should be thrilled if they'd move in to their neighborhoods.