Former aid worker Kirk Johnson has started the The List Project to get Iraqis who have helped the US government resettled in America. This evening on 60 Minutes, his story was told.
"The List Project is a U.S. non-profit, founded in 2007 with the belief that the United States Government has a clear and urgent moral obligation to resettle to safety Iraqis who are imperiled due to their affiliation with the United States of America. We are the first comprehensive organizational effort to honor the sacrifice of these Iraqis."
From the 60 minutes Transcript:
"If we can't get to the point where we can't even save the people who are themselves fleeing terrorists, if we can't somehow regain our senses and say 'You've been riding in Humvees with our Marines, you've been translating for our diplomats. We understand that you're not the terrorists,' if we don’t have the capacity to do this, I don't even know how finish that sentence. I know that we do. We just lack political will," Johnson argues.
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