Madam Speaker. today is World Refugee Day. a day of honoring the courage and raising the plight of more than 8 million refugees and 23.7 million internally displaced persons around the world. This year. on the sixth anniversary of the United Nationsdesignated World Refugee Day. organizations in hundreds of countries will come together to focus global attention on those refugees who have been displaced by natural disasters or were forced to leave their homes. native countries. and loved ones due to the political. ethnic or religious oppression and persecution they would have faced otherwise. The United States historically has led efforts to assist various refugee populations. as exemplified through U.S. efforts to assist Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s. Now. in the 21sf century. the U.S. has a particularly compelling reason to focus on the Iraqi refugee crisis. Approximately 2 million Iraqi refugees have fled persecution. violence. threats EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. Vol. 153. Pt. 12 of kidnapping and death threats. mostly moving to Syria and Jordan.
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