Here is why they came to see me. The community was poised to welcome
a second family from Syria--a mother, father, and five minor children--
to meet them at the Roanoke airport tomorrow and help them find a home
in the United States. This refugee family they were supposed to meet
tomorrow fled Syria 4 years ago. They had been living in a refugee camp
in Jordan, undergoing 4 years of vetting in the hopes they could come
to America. Now, their sponsors pressed papers into my hand and said:
What will happen to this family? Are they now shut out of the dream
they have worked so hard to achieve?