We have had disorganised, ineffective groups – unruly mobs, playtime at kindergarten, panicked people fleeing disaster.
They're keenly aware that their city has always been a destination for refugees fleeing disaster.
New York's greatest resource has always been the waves of refugees who come here, fleeing disaster and seeking to build a new life.
If we are to have restrictions on immigration, they ought to be reasonable, allow for family unification, operate in sync with the labor market and give refuge to those fleeing disaster and persecution.
Refugees are fleeing disaster, terror, violence, persecution, discrimination and poverty that makes life not worth living.
OO Africa: Fleeing Disasters, Escaping Drought, Migrating - most agree that Africa is the most impacted region by widespread violence and climate catastrophes.
Still, the officials responsible for helping the migrants fleeing disaster-racked homelands are well acquainted with the difficulties that even the wealthiest nations face in absorbing the growing influx.
The authorities and immigrant advocates have learned from prior storms that fear can have a crippling effect on people's willingness to flee a disaster zone.
A State Department spokesman, Noel Clay, said the United States had not suspended its visa requirements for Haitians trying to flee the disaster, even though the Department of Homeland Security has halted the deportations of Haitians already in the United States illegally.
Egan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Times, focuses on the plight of a handful of families from the Dust Bowl who chose not to flee the disaster, and recreates the events of April 14 , 1935-- Black Sunday, the day of the biggest dust storm on record.
