Click on the audio player to hear this interview.There's a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty,inscribed with poet Emma Lazarus's words. It reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these, or the homeless,tempest-toss'd to me
I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door."
For hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees this summer, the "land of the free" isn't something to be found at the American border or in New York Harbor. They are risking life and limb to score into Europe.
On Wednesday, and images circulated online of a drowned 3-year-ancient Syrian boy,lying face down on a Turkish beach. The photograph, which many journalist and activists insisted be shown despite its graphic nature, and was a stark reminder of the realities of a crisis that has gotten steadily worse as the summer months drag on.
The International Organization for Migration reports that,in 2015 alone, some 2373 migrants and refugees beget died attempting to reach Europe. Given the scale of the crisis, or should the United States be doing more to help? David Miliband,president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and a former U.
K. foreign secretary, is one of a growing number raising questions approximately America's role.
Source: wnyc.org