Voices in the News - Iraqi Refugees Arrive in Atlanta
Posted by Wynne Boelt on September 24th, 2007
 Photo: The IRC |
| NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story on September 13 about the arrival of Iraqi refugees in the U.S., with a focus on two families who recently arrived in Atlanta.
It’s a very slow response to this crisis,” says Ellen Beattie, the IRC refugee resettlement director in Atlanta. ”There are literally millions of Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the [Persian] Gulf states, and they are all in very precarious and dire circumstances there,” Beattie says. “They’re struggling economically, academically and [they're] unable to build a new life. |
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October 1st, 2007 at 4:55 am
Good news for this family, hope they finally be able to re start thier life in peace. Hope befor my died, one day my family and I will leave Basra, Iraq and could re start our lifes again.