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Great Post!

>>>Those who actually endure such daily horror as can be found in the world want one thing and one thing only: they want to come here. They want to come here NOW.

I started Bergen Community College Paramus, NJ in 1986. Made immediate friends with the girl who sat in front of me in Math, Parvenae. A month into class I went to her apartment to tutor her. She just couldn't grasp the math and we had a horrible language barrier to overcome that kept me from tutoring her in the loud Cafe at school.

At her apartment, I met her sister and brother who were only one and 2 years older than her. No parents??? After I arrived, a group of their friends came over with Pizza hoping they could pick up tips from whatever tutoring I was going to give Parvenae. Unfortunately, that night, the math book stayed unopened on the coffee table. A slice of pizza stayed folded in my hand and was never bitten into. "I WAS THE ONE TUTORED!" I learned where they all came from. They were all my age. They were all without family here. Their families payed to have them smuggled out of Iraq. They could never speak to their families again. They could never go back. They lived on grants from our Refugee Resettlement Program. The stories I heard made me numb.