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We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.