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No Fast Track for At-Risk Iraqi Refugees | Forbes

Posted by Faiz on November 30th, 2007

“The Bush administration has set a goal of admitting 12,000 Iraqi refugees in the current budget year that ends next October … That would be a more than sevenfold increase in the 1,608 admitted in fiscal year 2007 … Last month - the first of the new budget year - only 450 Iraqis were allowed in, less than half the monthly average of 1,000 needed to reach the target.”

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