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[quote=Anonymous]Something seems to be missing from this discussion.

Refugees come from somewhere, someplace that at one time was considered home. Home might have been an exceptionally difficult place, but it was still a place where people live, people have families, people grow up, people have more families. In some cases, stable communities have been ripped apart over a relatively short period of time, such as by war. In other places live has always been more difficult and becomes progressively more difficult, but people still live real lives, which means they have grandmothers and aunts and uncles and fall in love, but at some point weighing the difficulty and danger of staying where they are against the difficulty and danger of trying to go somewhere else, the choice to leave is made. Life where someone lives in a difficult and dangerous place is tolerable until it isn't. And sometimes that choice is made given the prospect of seeing your young children face life in a place that is becoming more and more hazardous.

Besides that are the additional factors such as trafficking, rape, lack of access to birth control, and in other ways having limited control over one's life and circumstances. Also, many refugees--how many I have no idea--are attempting to join family and extended family members in the US, with the hope that lives for them and their children can get better.

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