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1. Many of these people aren't refugees. They're regular visa holders, often green card holders. One of the people the ACLU and NILC are representing was previously employed by the US military as an interpreter.

2. When Anne Frank's parents tried to get to the US between 1939 and 1941, the US certainly did not send them straight to death camps. The Final Solution wasn't even decided until 1942. Anne Frank wasn't arrested until 1944.

3. If the standard for US residence is love for our laws and conformity to our way of life, we need to come up with a good explanation for the special case where people born in the US are allowed to stay without vetting upon adulthood.