Martin O'Malley: Lady Liberty should open arms to Syrian refugees

posted on: Sep 12, 2015

Last week a forgotten war forced itself onto the TV screens and consciences of people across the world. The images of poor Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach, and of the family in Hungary grasping for refuge by clinging to the railroad tracks, served as a shocking reminder that tragedy and hardship are a part of daily life in Syria today.

Since non-violent protests broke out in 2011, more than 4 million Syrian citizens have been turned into refugees. More than 7 million have been displaced internally. Out of a country of 23 million, this means that nearly every other person in Syria has been forced to flee their homes due to war and famine. It would be as if, in the United States, every Californian, Texan, Floridian, New Yorker, Illinoisian, Pennsylvanian, Ohioan, Georgian, North Carolinian and Michigander were forced out of their homes.

Source: www.usatoday.com