5 years later and Bush is finally letting some of the over 2 million refugees into the U.S. Gee…..I bet they have some success stories, eh?

By JEFF KAROUB
Associated Press Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Immigration aid workers here expect that as many as half of the nearly 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be brought into the United States by the end of September will settle in the area.

Lutheran Social Services of Michigan has received government data on numerous refugees recommended for resettlement, said Belmin Pinjic, the service’s director of refugee services.

“That’s the first sign that someone is in the process and should be coming,” he said. “How long that process should take, we don’t know.”

The agency has already started to contact the prospective refugees’ family members who live in the Detroit area, Pinjic said.

The Department of Homeland Security said this week it has approved the refugee applications of 59 Iraqis who should be arriving in the coming weeks. The department provided no details about where they would settle but said it has already completed interviews in refugee cases involving more than 700 men, women and children.

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