"Both my grandfathers came to this country from Russia at the turn of the century because they were fleeing Russian persecution of the Jews," Dr. Panzer said.
Omar, 48, was travelling with his 17-year-old daughter who didn't want to be named because they were fleeing threats and extortion by one of the many street gangs that dominate the region.
The Lebanese Muslim Association reacted angrily last week after Dutton's comments on the Bolt program, suggesting they were a clear reference to the community who came to Australia during the Fraser government because they were fleeing civil war.
They are there because they were fleeing genocidal Jew-hatred.
Hugo J. Byrne, who left Cuba in 1961, said the 1966 law was necessary for his group of émigrés because they were fleeing political persecution.
It's Daniel's first time attempting to migrate to the U.S., and he didn't slip away in the night, as so many from his country have done, because they were fleeing gangs.
The reception in the press was generally welcoming, even among tabloids as hostile to immigration then as they are now, perhaps because the Vietnamese were fleeing communism.
Col. Cyrus Oguna, a spokesman for the Kenyan Army, which is part of the African Union forces fighting Shabab militants, said the fighters were fleeing because they sensed defeat.
The massacred men, all Texas Germans, were fleeing, but not because they were insurrectionists.
In the last few years, we're seeing people cross because they're fleeing violence.
