>I published an essay about the refugee crisis on Medium:
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>https://medium.com/@TamarEGranor/my-mother-survived-but-millions-died-today-s-refugees-deserve-better-62249e4fcfcd
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>Tamar

Tamar, a question - even before getting into issues of worthiness of action (which is what "deserving" means) - do you have any trust in the current administration to implement steps and policies to manage this in any kind of efficient manner?

Please keep in mind that the current administration's executive orders on immigration were put on hold by the courts The administration is also in hot water for failing to disclose information on additional deferred actions AFTER the federal judge's initial ruling.

All this goes to say that your heart might be in the right place, but the welfare context and what this administration has tried to pull is very different from what you had decades ago. It is one thing to grant amnesty and provide support for refugees - another to grant work permits (which creates huge financial implications at the state and local level) - and other thing altogether to write checks (explicitly or implicitly) from the United States Treasury in the name of social welfare or even a bogus claim that it's "good for national security" (exact words from our president).

This is my nice way of saying you need to look at what this administration has tried to pull. Marcia's question might seem impertinent to you, but it's a valid question. Normally I have never cared who comes into this country, so long as they obey our laws and stay out of trouble. But when you have politicians jumping over top of one another to see which one of them can expand the welfare state the greatest (such as Sanders wanting to provide ACA for some of the undocumented individuals in this country), then we have a serious problem that no one on the political left wants to talk about (and those on the right who say a word are labeled as xenophobic and falsely lumped with Trump)