Big jump in Iraqi refugees in US (BBC)

[Nambe]

Source: BBC

The US has accepted nearly 14,000 Iraqi refugees in the last 12 months and will take in another 17,000 in the next year, the State Department has said.

The figure is an eight-fold increase over the previous year, officials said.

The Bush administration has often been criticised for being slow to accept refugees from the violence in Iraq.

The UN estimates that more than four million Iraqis have fled their homes since the US-led invasion of 2003, with many going to Syria and Jordan. ...

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/7651225.stm

[Ezana]

1. Let us get the hell out of Iraq and Irais will not be interested to come to the US

It really amazes me when we act as if we are doing a favour by accepting the people of those countries whom we messed up, which otherwise were doing well and indifferenet to the US, uninterseted to come to the US.

[Tempest]

2. Way less than the 34,000 Bush promised to allow into the country

And what about the other 2.5 million Iraqi refugees?