| 1 | It has rained for a week straight, the week in which you stumbled a refugee into my camp. | |
| 2 | And, despite not having diplomatic immunity, he gave shelter to some people in his own home. | |
| 3 | Some are driven from their homes or countries, and many who become refugees confront new threats in their countries of asylum. | |
| 4 | As well as needing food and water, these new arrivals urgently need proper shelter, medical help and other basic aid. | |
| 5 | America can still be, as Madison perceived the nation in 1785, "an Asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of every Nation and Religion. |