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Holly Richardson: A humanitarian crisis from two schoolyard bullies

The news about over the last couple of weeks has been absolutely gut-wrenching. Gut-wrenching.

I’ve been to Turkey, working with Syrian and Kurdish refugees near the border. Now, with Trump abandoning our Kurdish allies — with zero warning (except maybe to Turkish president Erdogan) and apparently zero input from our military — the world’s refugee crisis just got worse in a hurry.

Guess where those refugees are going? Iraq. Turkey isn’t safe, getting to Greece can be deadly, but Iraq, well, Iraq will take the estimated 50,000 expected to cross the border in the next few months.