This detaining of refugees at airports is making me sick to my stomach. It just struck too close to home. I vividly recall going through the same exact thing with my family, the same visa, the same airport, my uncle waiting for us on the other side, and a missing document that almost had us detained at the airport, too. But they let us through that time, and we just had to return a week later when the documents arrived. That was still in the pre-post-normal time, on the right side of the looking-glass we just tumbled through.

This is just too cruel. Perfect accompaniment to this – one of the recent This American Life episodes, titled, ironically, “Didn’t we solve that one?”