"When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury."

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Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.

— Nguyen Viet Thang