It’s York Region’s “secret problem”: pregnant women, children and families who fled for their lives from Africa with just the clothes on their backs, now huddled on porches, pavement, portables and bus floors, begging for our help. Should local tax dollars be used to ease their pain? York Region council grappled with the problem Thursday of how to assist the apparently never-ending flow of asylum seekers flocking to Peel, Toronto, Durham and, this summer in particular, Vaughan.