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What A Refugee-Turned-Labor Leader Thinks Of Our Backlash Against Refugees

From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

Read More

From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

Read More

From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

Read More

From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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From Huffington Post, November 20, 2015

Tefere Gebre has been following the political debate over Syrian refugees this week from his downtown D.C. office, about a block from the White House. At times, he said, the discourse has turned his stomach.

“It’s been a tough week,” Gebre, the vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told The Huffington Post.

For Gebre, the issue is personal. He was 14 years old when, in 1982, he and four friends fled their native Ethiopia. They were seeking safety from the communist Derg, the military dictatorship that Gebre said had murdered several of their neighbors and left them dead in the street. After traveling for 93 days in the desert, abandoned by their guides, the boys made it to a Sudanese refugee camp. Gebre weighed 67 pounds.

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