Mary Sanchez: Ukraine should shock us out of our immigration coma
It’ s among several statements, featured as scrolling narratives to the virtues of migrants, appearing on the website of the Refugee Council USA. This humanitarian crisis needs to finally shake the U.S. out of the political coma we’ ve been existing in for far too long. Clearly, many in the U.S. are mortified watching the invasion of Ukraine from afar.
“Immigration and refugee policy is an important part of our past and fundamental to our national interest.”
The quote is from the late former President Ronald Reagan. It’s among several statements, featured as scrolling narratives to the virtues of migrants, appearing on the website of the Refugee Council USA.
The Council is an advocacy group aligned with the interests of people like the Ukrainians who are desperately fleeing their homeland, nearing 500,000 at this writing. The United Nations predicts that
