A Real Surge On The Way?

Mark Krikorian writes:

Since it seems fairly certain to me now that we're going to end up evacuating Baghdad's green zone from the embassy roof in helicopters, what I'm worried about is the much more significant "surge" we're going to have to deal with — Iraqi refugees, virtually all of them our Sunni enemies, being resettled by the hundreds of thousands in the United States. Thomas Friedman in today's NY Times writes: "Of course, just leaving would be bad for us and terrible for those Iraqis who have worked with us. We need to give them all U.S. passports." And that's just what's going to happen, just as France took in nearly 100,000 Harkis after the Algerian war, though the Iraqi flow here is likely to be an order of magnitude greater. The number coming here so far has been small, but it's going to grow rapidly. Which is why in the future we need to factor in considerations of the immigration fallout before we launch foreign policy initiatives.

There's at least one reason why "the number coming here so far has been small" (though that seems fine with Krikorian, since they're "enemies"). From the website of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad:

Currently, the U.S. Embassy Baghdad Consular Section is not authorized to accept immigrant visa petitions. Petitioners must file the petition in the United States or at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

Iraqis trying to flee the carnage for the U.S. can't apply for a visa at the largest U.S. embassy in the world, which sits in the middle of their capital. They have to get to Jordan.

I trust that well in advance of any evacuation, if it comes to that, we'll have in place an efficient and highly organized system to get necessary documents to the thousands of Iraqis who've worked with us, along with their families and relatives. No last-minute chaos and no one left behind this time. Right?