A possible silver lining to denying sanctuary to the refugees...
Your grand-kids will maybe get a touching book to read!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/02/14/us-annefrank-letters-idUSN1430569220070214#FAfP1ZmLlQRco6eL.97
"It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance," Otto Frank wrote in a letter to Strauss, who was the head of the U.S. Housing Authority. "You are the only person I know that I can ask."
Frank asked for $5,000 to cover a deposit related to getting a U.S. visa, but the money was ultimately not needed because the visa was not granted.