In haven for Mideast emigres, a hope U.S. will take more refugees

[Yahoo! News]

View attachment 26843​

By Bernie Woodall DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Akeel Asady, the usually cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his refugee family’s desperate attempt to make it to Greece. Asady was once a refugee who fled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq in the early 1990s and lived in a tent in Saudi Arabia's desert for more than two years before a Christian agency brought him to the United States. For Arab-Americans who sit at the six booths of Iraqi Kabob in Dearborn, Michigan, lively discussions about violence in the Middle East and the refugees it creates are always taking place, he said.

Continue reading...