Ed Behrendt wrote: For example, there was a bill in congress to permit 10,000 young children, without parents or families, to escape and enter the USA. After much debate, the bill was rejected, and the children perished in Europe. I have something of a personal stake in that--a trial shipment of 50 children *did* come over as that bill was being debated; my mother was one of them. Ari Epstein