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Article: U.S. Government Reaches Record for Iraqi Refugee Admissions and Humanitarian Assistance in Fiscal Year 2008.
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- October 3, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-3 October 2008-US Department of State: U.S. Government Reaches Record for Iraqi Refugee Admissions and Humanitarian Assistance in Fiscal Year 2008(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC -- By the end of the U.S. government's fiscal year on September 30, 13,823 Iraqi refugees had arrived for resettlement in the United States, surpassing the target of 12,000. This figure represents a more than eightfold increase over the 1608 Iraqis admitted in the previous year. Most of the Iraqis who arrived in the U.S. - over 9000 - came from Jordan and Syria, the two countries hosting the most ...
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