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I do think that folks who have put themselves at risk in Iraq by working with the US should be allowed to come to the US. However, there are more than just translators at risk: the war has created so many displaced persons/refugees from Iraq, and not all of them have a place to go. For example, Al-Tanaf refugee camp is located in no man's land between Iraq and Syria. Several families (about 450 Palestinians) have been stranded there most now for more than two years in the middle of the desert far away from any population center. They cannot go back to Iraq, and they are not accepted into any host country so far. Since the US bears so much of the responsibility for creating these dislocations, we ought to be accepting a healthy proportion of the most at risk refugees as well as people like translators.

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