It took seven months for Samer and his family to flee persecution in Syria and reach the US. Now as they are all held in different detention centres,he tells the Guardian how he wishes they had never started the journeyThroughout the seven months it took Samer and his family to earn their way from Syria to the United States, he told himself that the risk and cost would be worth it they could swap their war-ravaged homeland for what he believed was a “land of opportunity, and hope and peace”.
But the family’s arrival in the US has proved more stressful than the journey: days after they reached Texas they found themselves the unwitting subject of a national debate over potential terrorist infiltration. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com