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Refuge Denied or Compassion Delivered? In 1939, hundreds of German Jewish men, women and children aboard the ocean liner St. Louis were denied refuge in Cuba and the United States. They had no choice but to return to violent, war-torn Europe. A few families found safety in England, but more than two thirds of the St. Louis passengers did not escape the Nazis. Almost everyone was killed or enslaved in concentration camps. What if we had granted asylum instead of deporting those desperate families back to starvation and the gas chambers? Seventy-five years later there are still places in the world full of violence and despair. How will we respond this time? Read the latest PCC column about immigration reform.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:04:41 +0000

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