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The New York Times: ‘What Part of Illegal Don’t You Understand?’

The New York Times, February 19, 2020: ‘What Part of Illegal Don’t You Understand?’

My family has been running from danger for nearly 100 years. The Nazarios are refugees; their remnants have scattered around the world to survive. My Jewish mother fled Poland in 1933. My Christian father fled Syria two years earlier. They met and married in Argentina, whose right-wing dictatorship imprisoned and almost killed my sister. By giving us a home, the United States saved our lives.

Would it do the same today?

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