I was terrified by the idea of experiencing the same violence as those who did not have the fabulous ability to hide themselves like I did.
Yet today, over five million refugees remain displaced, and his Muslim ban slams the door in the face of those fleeing the same violence that he condemns.
These are not, of course, imposed with the same violence as home, but the genesis of the global upheavals of which they are victims is unmistakeable.
The UNHCR is seeking $23.5m to set up offices in the Northern Triangle region to better monitor the situation at the source and to observe the fate of deportees who often face the same violence they fled from.
Like those refugees, my family and I fled Iraq in 1991 for many of the same reasons; violence and oppression overcame many parts of our country and religious persecution was a daily reality.
As Israel is further burdened and tired of the same old violence, I am confident our consciousness will evolve and that peace will not be a utopian dream, but a real viable reality.
By paying homage to these victims, Corral suggests that the violence exerted against them forms part of the same circle of violence that connects the State and narco violence.
While most of the other refugees in the country had successfully escaped the conditions that had upended their lives, these gay refugees were entering an environment that posed many of the same threats of violence.
Giovanni Xochipa, another founding member of Cauce, tells VICE News that he sees many of the same factors driving violence among young people in Mexico today that he experienced as a gang leader in the 1990s.
Although he had said the same of "Violence of the Red Sea" with respect to the album itself in a previous interview, Rubalcaba later described "From the Ages" as the most organized, planned song the band had yet ever recorded, let alone recorded for this album.
