It sheltered them from the political windswhether religious persecution in the 17th centuryor Cossacks pillaging Russian towns in the 19th century. Sometimes we made mistakeslike the time the United States turned back the St. Louis. that ship filled with Jewish refugees from Germany In 1939. That was also a time when we were unable to monitor what was going on. We found out later. when our troops walked through the gates of Auschwitz and BergenBelsen. Let us not send the Haitian refugees back to the country they risked their lives to escape. If we cant welcome them permanently. at least grant them a few months of safe haven in the tents of Guantanamo.
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