One would expect, after all, that with all that violence destroying critical infrastructure, and presumably choking hospitals and encouraging doctors to flee, deaths from disease would have shot up.
They had come to our country, fleeing death threats and fear Refugees seeking protection, for which Lady Liberty stands so clear.
Schools have become makeshift shelters crammed with displaced people fleeing death to a supposedly safer place.
But in Family Court, the Haitian girl came before Judge Louise Gruner Gans, who happened to know what it was like to be a young person fleeing death.
While of course the primary motivation to let in refugees is that they're fleeing death, once they arrive they can contribute to the economy".
But they will allow hatred and fear to breed within, and they will stop families fleeing death and terror from settling in our country, finding jobs, purchasing property and paying taxes.
"Our nation's refugee laws were created in the aftermath of World War II to ensure that we would never again turn away refugees fleeing death in their home countries.
Her mother, whose own father had fled death threats in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, told her to stay.
"Rohingya who fled death and destruction at the hands of the security forces are unlikely to find the prospect of living in close proximity to those same forces conducive to a safe return," the group said in a statement.
Throwing desperate people fleeing death and persecution in prison on small Pacific islands for having the temerity to seek refuge in Australia isn't just morally wrong, it's irrational, illegal and prohibitively expensive to boot.
