Last week's U.N. World Refugee Day sought to shine a light on the record 26 million poor, brown, defenseless souls this monstrous regime uses as political pawns. Still the crimes mount, the flood of human misery continues, and too many are incarcerated in "some suburb of hell." We offer a sliver of hope here in Portland, ME, where hundreds of asylum-seekers just arrived en masse and officials/ residents are scrambling to welcome them. Because - it's simple - our common humanity demands it.