Julia Taft called for swift action to assist Iraqis whose lives are in danger because of their work with our government. Ms. Taft served as director of the Interagency Task Force for Indochinese Refugee Resettlement in the Ford Administration and was later Assistant Secretary of State for Population. Refugees and Migration. She wrote about an Iraqi couple working for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad who had been kidnapped and executed. She said: They are among the most recent of thousands of cases in which Iraqis affiliated with the United States have been forced into hiding. tortured or. often. killed . . . I found myself thinking of this husband and wife last week . . . and struggling with a terrible contradiction. The United States is the worlds most generous contributor to refugee relief. and we have always taken the lead on resettling refugees. Yet our country has done the bare minimum to help these Iraqis facing death and exile. In her call for action.
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