She went all the way back to Poland, but made the journey again and settled in Chicago, got married, and managed to get all her sisters out of Poland before the war, but not her brothers or her parents.

That's some story. I hadn't known.

The present situation is incredibly distressing. Yes, one would've thought these things should have changed by now.

I don't want my country to agree it's all right to be so afraid that we abandon people in need. I don't want to belong to the side that did the sending back. I am trying to figure out what I can do about it.