Reema lost three children in one night during the war in Syria. Her husband lost use of his legs. But with Canadian supporters, they're starting, very slowly, to heal.
"It drives me crazy because I would have loved to have them in my own house," says one Boston resident, who has raised money and found Canadians to sponsor a Syrian refugee.
If a refugee mother is told: 'Go back to where you came from,' it's painful. But it's far more hurtful if her child is born and raised in Canada, a professor says.