Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a writer, editor, and practicing internist in New York City and co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Author of a collection of books about the world of medicine, her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, the New York Times, and Slate, among others.
To those fleeing violence and torture in their native countries, America still stands for the freedoms that made us great—and the most important to them, freedom from fear.
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