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When we were growing in New York and looking for more people to hire, I remembered that in Utica, an hour away, there were refugees from Southeast Asia and Africa, who were looking for a place to work.
Today, in one of America's rural areas, 30 percent of the Chobani workforce are immigrants and refugees.
He went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature— and also rescue 2,000 refugees, spend three years in political exile, and run for president of Chile.
Neruda organized an evacuation of refugees from Spain to Chile, saving 2,000 lives.
Most of the immigrants and refugees that are coming to our southern border are fleeing three countries: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Generations of refugees have been coming to our shores, fleeing the civil wars of the 1980s, in which the United States was deeply involved.
There are several ways refugees come to this country.
Through that program, the US identifies and selects refugees abroad and brings them to the United States.
Last year, the US resettled fewer refugees than at any time since the program began in 1980.
And this is at a time when we have more refugees in the world than at any other time in recorded history, even since World War II.
Another way that refugees come to this country is by seeking asylum.
Under a new program, with the kind of Orwellian title "Migrant Protection Protocols," refugees are told they have to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through the courts in the United States, and this can take months or years.
The amount of support we provide to countries in Central America that are sending refugees and migrants is a tiny fraction of the amount we spend on enforcement and detention.
And we could resettle more refugees.
To give you a sense of the decline in the refugee program: three years ago, the US resettled 15,000 Syrian refugees in response to the largest refugee crisis on earth.
Despite the harsh rhetoric and efforts to block immigration, keep refugees out of the country, support for refugees and immigrants in this country, according to polls, has never been higher.
One obvious scenario is the potential destabilization caused by tens of millions of climate refugees, who'll be forced to move because they have no or little water, or because their livelihoods have been destroyed by the melting of glaciers.
The United States and Mexico took in thousands and millions, actually, of refugees escaping the civil wars of the 70s and 80s.
I saw the structure while I was on the train, and I got off at the next station and met people there that gave me access to their catacomb-like basement, which was used for ammunition storage during the war and also, at some point, to hide groups of Jewish refugees.
So the arrival of more than a million refugees in 2015 and 2016 dominated somewhat the debate.
And everywhere in our content, we embedded simple questions like this: "Did Germany take in too many refugees?"
I used to be fun at parties, but now, I inevitably find myself telling people about how our government tortures refugees at the border and in the detention camps.
This administration would have you believe that we have to separate families and we have to detain children, because it will stop more refugees from coming to our borders.
In Tijuana, we've met refugees from over 50 countries, speaking 14 different languages.
But we also meet Russian dissidents, Venezuelan activists, Christians from China, Muslims from China, and thousands and thousands of other refugees fleeing all types of persecution and torture.
Now, a lot of these people would qualify as refugees under the international legal definition.
But even those who would be refugees under the international definition are not going to win asylum in the United States.
Now these laws are mostly aimed at Central Americans and keeping them out of the country, but they affect other types of refugees as well.
The result is that the US frequently deports refugees to their persecution and death.
The US is also using detention to try to deter refugees and make it harder for them to win their cases.
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