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Fleeing ISIS: refugees who reach U.S. struggle to reclaim lives

   By Aalia Shaheed
   Published October 16, 2015
   FoxNews.com
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   The growing human wave fleeing Islamic State barbarism in the Middle
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   struggle to reclaim shattered lives -- as the communities where they've
   settled grapple with providing assistance.

   “It was not safe. I didn’t have dreams," Abdullah Albaldawi told Fox
   News. He arrived 10 months ago in the U.S., after fleeing ISIS terror
   in Iraq. "Now I am learning English, I have dream, future. Day after
   day I feel better.”

   Albaldawiis studying at CENTER, a new tutoring hubfor refugees in
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   While Secretary of State John Kerry announced the number of refugees
   admitted into the U.S. for the next fiscal year will increase to
   85,000, from 70,000, as the situation in Syria and the European refugee
   crisis worsens, the Obama administration ispledging to makesure that
   10,000refugees are included in that quota.

   So far, around 1,500 Syrian refugees have been admitted into the U.S.
   since 2011.

   According to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, Arizona
   receivesmore than 68 refugees per 100,000 residents.

   Many of the refugees being helped in Arizona have left behind spouses,
   siblings, and parents in their homelands. With an average seven-year
   approval process in the resettlement program, the wait for family
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   Jeffrey Cornish.

   Sarsawati Chhetri considers herself “successfully established” in
   Tucson. Born in a Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal, Chhetri knew nothing
   of the U.S. until she moved to the Tucson at age 13.Language was a huge
   obstacle in her new life in the U.S. But she overcame it to become a
   student at the University of Arizona. She now spends her time
   volunteering with other young refugees, hoping to return a little of
   the support she received as a teen.
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