| Total FY 2006-07 | OCT06 | NOV06 | DEC06 | JAN07 | FEB07 | MAR07 | APR07 | MAY07 | JUN07 | |
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| 133 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 63 | |
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Iraqi Refugees Admitted to the US during the fiscal year ending September 2007.
The US admitted 63 Iraqi refugees in June 2007, according to State Department figures, bringing the total admitted in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007 to 133 Iraqis.
While the figure represents an improvement over May's figure of one Iraqi refugee admitted to the US, it's still "too early to cheer," writes Refugees International President Ken Bacon in a recent blog post, given both the magnitude of the Iraqi refugee crisis, and earlier US commitments.
"This is still a very small number compared to the State Department’s various announcements that it was prepared to resettle from 7,000 to 20,000 Iraqis this year," Bacon writes, adding that, "The hold up has been the Department of Homeland Security, which has moved slowly to issue its security protocols for processing Iraqis and getting interview teams into the field."
The latest figures from the Iraqi Red Crescent on the Iraqi refugee crisis estimate over one million internally displaced Iraqis (The UN estimates over two million), and well over two million externally displaced.
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