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Her parents were Palestinian refugees living in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus.
She's working for the International Rescue Committee to help other refugees, but she has no certainty at all about her future, where it is or what it holds.
And there is no better test of that than how we treat refugees.
Most of those people, about 40 million, stay within their own home country, but 25 million are refugees.
And refugees stay for a long time.
Solution one: these refugees need to get into work in the countries where they're living, and the countries where they're living need massive economic support.
In Uganda in 2014, they did a study: 80 percent of refugees in the capital city Kampala needed no humanitarian aid because they were working.
Solution number three: most refugees are in urban areas, in cities, not in camps.
That is the future of the humanitarian system, or a significant part of it: give people cash so that you boost the power of refugees and you'll help the local economy.
The most vulnerable refugees need to be given a new start and a new life in a new country, including in the West.
Now is not the time to be banning refugees, as the Trump administration proposes.
The truth is, refugees arriving for resettlement are more vetted than any other population arriving in our countries.
In one year, 500,000 refugees went across the island.
And refugees are a hard case.
Those are precisely the reasons we should be helping refugees, not a reason not to help them.
The reason that refugees have rights around the world is because of extraordinary Western leadership by statesmen and women after the Second World War that became universal rights.
Trash the protections of refugees, and we trash our own history.
Refugees seeking sanctuary have seen the West as a source of hope and a place of haven.
It's not an accident that the country which has taken more refugees than any other, the United States, has taken more refugees from Vietnam than any other country.
If you're an employer, hire refugees.
If you've got money, give it to charities that make a difference for refugees around the world.
Because this is about the rescue of us and our values as well as the rescue of refugees and their lives.
BG: Those are strong suggestions and your call for individual responsibility is very strong as well, but I'm troubled by one thought, and it's this: you mentioned, and these are your words, "extraordinary Western leadership" which led 60-something years ago to the whole discussion about human rights, to the conventions on refugees, etc. etc.
Actually, refugees have become one of the divisive issues.
And when people say to me, "There's a backlash against refugees," what I say to them is, "No, there's a polarization, and at the moment, those who are fearful are making more noise than those who are proud."
This is the highest number of refugees since World War II.
I've also spent the last 12 years of my life working with refugees.
This group of kids would give me a crash course in refugees, poverty and humanity.
The issue shouldn't be stopping refugees from coming into our countries.
"Why do they hate us?" "Who hates you?" "Everyone; everyone hates us because we are refugees, because we are Muslim."
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