Pacific Views

Iraqi Refugees

Iraq's 2.2 million refugees are struggling to get by. Often held in virtual imprisonment in their host countries. As much as they may want to, only 701 of them have apparently been allowed to emigrate to the United States.

... "Whatever is in America," Toma says, "it will be a thousand times better than what we had in Iraq or Turkey because there are work opportunities. There is no discrimination, no hatred."

Ahem.