When freedom is on the march

December 15th, 2006 at 17:25 Björn Hallberg

Freedom is on the march, though in this case it means leaving Iraq behind. As succinctly put on Metafilter

Iraq has become the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis.
Life there is a living hell, but the exodus is threatening to destabalize its neighbors. The US accepts only 500 Iraqi refugees a year, but president Bush has the legal authority to admit 20,000 more. Perhaps he’ll do it for Christmas.

This has also been confirmed by Swedish immigration authorities who are now — despite the geographical distance — increasingly swamped by a neverending stream of refugees.

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