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Iraqi Refugees Arrive in Michigan

By immigrationprof

Niraj Warikoo of the Free Press writes (July 31):

The first group of Iraqi refugees coming to Michigan is expected to arrive Wednesday morning in Detroit, according to Lutheran Social Services of Michigan.

Six refugees — five of them part of one family — will touch down at Detroit Metro Airport on a flight from New York City, said Belmin Pinjic, head of refugee services at Lutheran Social Services.

The family of five will stay with their relatives in metro Detroit, he said.

They are Chaldean, Iraqi Catholics, and fled Iraq in 2003 to Turkey. The parents had been harassed by the government of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, said Lutheran spokeswoman Barbara Lewis. Click here for the rest of the story.

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