Thread: U.S. says inflow of Iraqi refugees will speed up

U.S. says inflow of Iraqi refugees will speed up
Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:15PM EDT

By Suleiman al-Khalidi

AMMAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday the United States would speed up the immigration of Iraqis who worked with its military in Iraq, after congressional criticism that it has taken in so few since the 2003 invasion.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey said a faster resettlement policy into the United States this year could more than double the rate of migration.

"Two thousand will have made it to the country, we hope if not by the end of September, by the end of October, and a couple of thousand more in November," she said.

"So by the end of the calendar year, there might be a possibility we will have moved the entire original 7,000 number that was talked about," Sauerbrey said, referring to figures for the number of Iraqis recommended by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for resettlement in the United States.

Sauerbrey said over 400 Iraqi refugees were expected to travel this month to the United States from Turkey, Jordan and Syria and be "resettled in many cities across our country".

"There is a very strong feeling it is our moral responsibility to do this but we also equally want to make sure we are doing it right and that the resettlement process is a welcoming one for Iraqis that are coming to our country," she said.

MORE REFUGEES TO U.S.

Sauerbrey said she expected an announcement soon that would raise significantly the numbers of refugees for U.S. resettlement.

"So you will see that we are anticipating resettling a much larger number of Iraqis coming to the states ... you will see it is moving much more rapidly, the pieces are in place and over the coming months we will see a much faster movement," she said.

The U.S. Congress has been pressuring the administration to open the door to Iraqi translators and others whose lives are threatened by militants who view them as traitors for working with the Americans.

"It has taken time and we are the first to admit that this has been a slow cumbersome process to get it moving ... I have to admit my own frustration we have not been able to move larger numbers more quickly," she said.

Washington was also drawing up contingency plans with international U.N. aid bodies led by UNHCR to cope with a bigger refugee flow in the event of greater violence following a a U.S. troop pullout, Sauerbrey said.

"We are certainly always are thinking ahead as to what the policy changes with (what the) implications would be," she said.

Sauerbrey also said Washington would expand aid beyond the $183 million extended to U.N. aid bodies for schemes to help over 4 million Iraqis who have either fled Iraq or left their homes for safer places within the country.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepage ... ._CH_.2400

Just Great! Send them all to Crawford Texas.

My humble opinion, the Iraq War is a distraction from securing our borders for the NAU. Therefore all their buddies, Executive Branch and Congress, get contracts in Iraq from the trillions Bush request every year for Iraq. Conveniently they can further diffuse the true Patriots here by bringing "refugees" who no doubt will support the invasion from Mexico since they will want all their relatives to come here from Iraq, Bush thinks he's a genius with this NAU and beyond stategy!

Really. . . . why don't we just arm everyone who comes across the border and declare Open Season on ourselves . . enough already


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Originally Posted by WhatMattersMost

Really. . . . why don't we just arm everyone who comes across the border and declare Open Season on ourselves . . enough already

"We" are not Bush's, Clinton's, and Reagan's the tree that stuffed NAFTA etc... and gave Mexico and latin America the weapons to invade and attack Patriots. "We" have'nt even started until we get the globalist out of the White House and how do you suppose we do that?

Wow, this makes a lot of sense.

Shouldn't we want those who support a democracy in Iraq to remain? IMHO, we're hurting our own efforts by giving those loyal to us an opportunity to abandon ship! We need those friendly to us to remain in Iraq.

The question is what is the priority? Our sovereignty or the NAU, speaking spanish, amero, etc...?

Wow, this makes a lot of sense.

Shouldn't we want those who support a democracy in Iraq to remain?

I thought the same thing, MW.
Sounds like they expect a "real safe Democracy" over there for those who support it.

Well if Bush attacks Iran, then we'll have more of them coming here!

Arabs don't even like their fellow Arabs! I read about one Iraqi family living in Egypt, they are bullied and teased by the Egyptians, as many Egyptians are having a hard time making a living too.

WE send aid to Egypt, Jordan, etc.....we can't keep this up!

Money to foreign countries, taking in foreigners by the billions and expecting USA citizens to fund all of this???

When and how can we say, no more of our taxes to this!

More diversity, just what we need, we have so much diversity now we are not even America any more, and hey how about we get some of these people to assimilate first and maybe WE won't have to build schools just for thier nationality. Seems like our taxpayer money is getting spent on building schools for every nationality except our American children, and then when we do they get taken over by illegals screw it we can not win. We need to throw this government out and fast.