Congress has extended the Special Immigrant Visa program. Packer cheers:
This means that the door to immigration hasn’t completely shut on Iraqis who worked with Americans and as a result have no future in their own country. (I wrote about the shameful abandonment of interpreters and others last week.)
With this reprieve, it’s now up to the Obama Administration to determine how many of the remaining seventeen thousand visas, out of an original twenty-five thousand, will be issued. The Afghan visa program is due to expire next September 30th. The record on both has been abysmal up to now, but suddenly, with everything else in Washington gone dark, a light is shining on this injustice.
Earlier Dish on the subject here.
The Dish 