Listen to this NPR report on the plight of Iraqi refugees. Georgetown Professor Andy Schoenholtz (his bio is here), a long-time friend, is terrific.
We recently posted, here, about the plight of Iraqi refugees. This year my clinic students and I won asylum for 10 Iraqis who fled Iraq after coming under attack by insurgent groups because they supported the U.S. military efforts. All of our clients faced an arduous, costly and dangerous journey to find safety here. The Iraqi refugees, including children as young as 3 years old, traveled (on foot, by raft, by train and by plane) through five countries before finally making it to the U.S. border where they sought asylum protection. That's because until recently the U.S. government was not processing refugee applications in Iraq. But after Senate hearings in January (at which one of our clients testified) the Department of State decided to process 7,000 refugees from Iraq each year. But there are many more thousands of people in danger . . .
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