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Article: VOA NEWS: ADMISSION OF IRAQI REFUGEES DOGGED BY BACKLOGS, DELAYS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Mil Arcega
The U.S. State Department has designated a special coordinator to help break a bureaucratic logjam that has held back thousands of Iraqi refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Despite promises to admit 7,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of this month, fewer than 1,000 have been admitted into the country this year. VOA's Mil Arcega reports.
More than 2.3 million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003. Most have taken refuge in Syria and Jordan. But for thousands seeking asylum in the United States, it is a dangerous waiting game.
Republican Senator Gordon Smith says many ...