I cannot imagine frightened and helpless people being scrutinized and screened and questioned. When one is hungry. food is what one needs. When one is a refugee. what one needs is shelter. The West African countries. which have had no part In this tragedyand we could well take an example from themare not making all these extravagant demands of these people. They are responsible. they have been asked to accept the burden of these refugees. and they have accepted it. We ought to follow their example. We ought to be moved with humanitarian concerns and not with narrow efforts to put the refugee into some category. or set conditions which may send them back to where they are in danger. I cannot see how this country has come to this attitude toward people in trouble. It is not characteristic.
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