Bush administration finally welcomes more Iraq refugees.

By Amanda Terkel on Feb 14, 2007 at 2:05 pm

For the first time since the Iraq war, the Bush administration has announced plans to expand its Iraq refugee program. “The United States has allowed only 463 Iraq refugees into the country since the war began in March 2003, even though some 3.8 million have been uprooted.” The new plan will allow 7,000 Iraqis to settled in the United States over the next year.

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