They were WRONG!
"Iraqi refugees find US aid is not what they expected; They struggle to find work and for financial help" by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | August 28, 2009
.... Six years of war have produced an estimated 2 million Iraqi refugees. Jordan and other neighboring countries have been overwhelmed. Refugee advocates have long pressed the United States to take in a greater share....
No, we just CREATE THEM -- except for that pesky southern border. For some reason, they pour through that place.
On a pleasant afternoon in Amman, the genteel Jordanian capital, a petite Iraqi woman with carefully coiffed hair, heavy makeup, and lots of gold jewelry sat in a classroom full of refugees heading to America, her face frozen in wide-eyed horror.
Her husband had disappeared in the war. Her request to settle in Jordan had been denied. Now an adviser from the International Organization for Migration was telling her no US company would recognize her law degree or her nearly two decades of experience.
In a month, the 51-year-old woman was due to leave for Portland, Ore. In the hushed room, she protested helplessly: “I am a lawyer. What else can I do?’’
A few desks away, Anwer and Avan Shalchi, bound for Folsom, Calif., nervously took notes on how many bags they would be allowed to take on the plane (two apiece), how much cash they could bring into the United States ($10,000 duty-free), and how much financial aid they could expect (only the first-month’s rent would be guaranteed).
US government picking up your rent or mortgage payment, 'murkn?
That's what I thought.
Aren't you glad the MSM and government sold us those lies that created this mess?
Related: Occupation Iraq: Country in Crisis
That's Bush's "surge success," huh?
Just thought I would add insult to injury for a change.
I been reading to many Boston Globes.
Avan, 32, wondered how they could reduce their lives to so little. Her husband, Anwer, 37, worried about how they would afford medical costs for their youngest daughter, born prematurely, and for his diabetes and high cholesterol.
I'm SURE the U.S. GOVERNMENT or SOME STATE GOVERNMENT will pick up that tab! Not that I don't think they deserve it, but AMERICANS are DENIED HEALTH CARE NOW!!!!
They too had hoped to last out the war in Jordan. But Iraq’s neighbor was handing out few residence permits, and they hadn’t wanted to keep working illegally.
It would be funny if it were not.
In the year of waiting for their applications to resettle in America to be processed, both families had run through most of their savings.
I hear ya; and now the IRS is sending me letters.
They had assumed that the United States would take care of them.
Well, that might not have been the smartest move. Obviously not Kurds or the other people in the region we have stiffed or double-crossed (you know, like Saddam).
The two-day class, just weeks before their departure last fall, was the first they had heard of how hard it might be to pursue the American dream.
You mean there is one left? The elite version, right?
There would be more rude surprises after they arrived....
Article never tells you what those were!
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