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Thousands of Iraqis Who Helped Americans in War Caught in...

Clip: 12/29/2011 | 8m 17s

Thousands of Iraqis Who Helped Americans in War Caught in Visa Holdup

In 2008, Congress passed a law allowing up to 5,000 Iraqis who had helped Americans during the war to come to the U.S. with their families as refugees each year, but the visa process has been slowed. Jeffrey Brown discusses the holdups with the University of Minnesota's Eric Schwartz and The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin.

12/29/2011

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