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鈥楥aught up in the Policy鈥�

Why Iraqi immigrants in the US are getting sent back to Iraq.

鈥淧eople are absolutely losing it. Some they go to their work. Some they pluck them right out of bed from their families."

Why Iraqis in the US are getting sent back to Iraq; what it means for one immigrant to get to stay; the fight for paid leave for victims of domestic violence in Canada; a Ukrainian physicist who always tries to keep politics and science separate fails yet again; and the two comedians who started ArmComedy, their country鈥檚 first satirical news programme, explain what Armenians find funny.

(Photo: An Iraqi owned restaurant in Detroit. Credit: Shirin Jaafari)

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