Immigration Process: Islamic State and Yazidi Refugees

immigration process: John McCallum answers a question in the House of Commons, Oct. 24, according to Huffington Post Canada. McCallum says his department has dispatched people to the region to begin the immigration process, although he hasn't committed to a set number of Yazidi refugees. He says the Liberals will support a Conservative motion calling for more support for the Yazidis, who have been singled out for particularly brutal treatment by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He says, though, that they are a priority for the government. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who used to dwell mainly in northern Iraq. One problem has been that the Yazidis have been mainly caught up in isolated combat zones, far from the refugee camps in Syria and Turkey which allow far easier access to officials seeking to screen and process newcomers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.