Imagine you had sold your house and valuable belongings to pay a dubious smuggler, whom you didn’t even know personally. And now imagine you had risked your own life and that of your loved ones to cross the Mediterranean in the middle of the darkest night. You would have defended yourself against brutal border patrol officers in Macedonia, endured the bleakness of Belgrade train station and had even escaped the deliberately induced misery in Budapest. Honestly: Would you let a turnpike at the German-Austrian border keep you out? No one in the world would be that stupid. But obviously …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
