The State Department has confirmed it “will fall far short of the 7,000 Iraqi refugees it had said it was prepared to accept by the end of September,” with plans to interview just 4,000 potential Iraqi refugees by then.

The State Department has confirmed it “will fall far short of the 7,000 Iraqi refugees it had said it was prepared to accept by the end of September,” with plans to interview just 4,000 potential Iraqi refugees by then.

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