U.S. stiffs Iraqi allies
July 25, 2008 at 10:57 am by Andisheh Nouraee in Don't Panic
Another mission accomplished.
The Washington Post reports today that the Bush Administration still isn’t helping the estimated 25,000 Iraqis who risked their lives to help the U.S. invasion and occupation force.
The State Department cannot resettle in the United States about 25,000 Iraqi interpreters and other refugees who worked for the U.S.-led coalition over the next two years because of limits on the number of applications that can be reviewed, according to Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte.
In February, CL published the story of Ahmad Ali, a Sunni Arab Iraqi translator targeted by Shi’ite death squads. Ali escaped Iraq’s sectarian killing fields to start a new life in Doraville.
In the story, I noted that the U.S. accepted just 1,608 Iraqi refugees last year. Sweden, which is 1/33 the size of the United States, has managed to give refuge to more than 31,000 Iraqis since the U.S. invasion.
(Illustration by Jeremy Fuerst)
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