Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 7, 2007
Red-Tape Torment
Forum Column - By Pamela Hartman - Laws intended to keep America safe from terrorists are thwarting would-be immigrants who are attempting to flee the fundamentalist menace.
By Pamela Hartman
Shortly after I wrote an article last year about the plight of Iraqi Armenian refugees, I got an unsolicited e-mail from Iraq. "Being an Iraqi Armenian, I'd like to ask you get an asylum in the United States or any other way get us out of this violence," the e-mail pleaded. "My name is Sarmeen at 36 and I am married to Linda at 27 and we have 2 boys 4 and 5 years living in Basrah, Iraq."
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