I’m grateful to read stories like this one:

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced Tuesday that he had helped to unite an Iowa family with their 4-year-old Haitian daughter — nicknamed “Maya” — who was found unharmed at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
After a news report identified the girl at the Central Texas Orphan Mission Alliance orphanage in Port-au-Prince last week. Harkin pressed the State Department to obtain humanitarian parole for the girl, who then met with her adopted parents in Haiti before heading to Pella, Iowa.
“This story truly tugs at your heartstrings: a local family so close to bringing their adoptive daughter home when a natural disaster strikes and almost prevents this reunion,” Harkin said in a statement. “My office saw an opportunity to help this family and in doing so, transform the images coming out of Haiti — if only for a moment — from one of devastation, to one of celebration.”