My kids like coming to this downtown area because they like to just hang out to the coffee shop and meet a friend.

Rania Bailey and her husband Jason were sitting in my truck in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania last January.

They'd been showing me around their new city.

Do you think of yourselves as refugees?

Hmm. In some ways, I mean, I think on principle, yes.

Jason was reluctant to go that far.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to put myself in that category because refugees have so many more hardships.

You know, how can a middle-class physician say he's a refugee?

But at the same time, I'm pretty...

Jason and Rania certainly aren't typical refugees.

They're Canadians, for one thing.

As a Canadian myself living in the U.S., I found it surreal even raising the question.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, about 1 million refugees have arrived in the U.S. in the last 20 years.

Exactly one was a Canadian.

Under UN guidelines, refugees must have a, quote, well-founded fear of persecution.

I can't imagine coming down from Alberta and telling the American border officer,

I have a well-founded fear of persecution.

He'd look at me like I was

crazy. Canada is a wonderful place. And the Bailey's had a very nice life. They left behind a

beautiful 19th century home in Cambridge, Ontario, a good church, good friends. They both graduated

from medical school at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Jason had a nice position at a hospital in Guelph.

Rania stopped practicing when they started having kids in 1998,

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