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by mdarens 3434 days ago
The State Department implemented new layers of bureaucracy at the start of 2011 which acted as a de facto impediment/delay to applicants in the Iraqi refugee program, and were rightly criticized at the time. [1]

This differs substantially from an affirmative ban which stranded people at airports.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/middleeast/13baghdad...