What it looks like to welcome and protect refugees.

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/mydaughtersarmy/status/666637539403538432

[misterhighwasted]

1. omg..

[notadmblnd]

2. You know, there are times I am so ashamed of my fellow human beings

To think that they have been programmed to be so afraid that they would deny a small child refuge.

[misterhighwasted]

4. Those same ones would never withstand what this one child has been through

How could you not just pick her up & hold her close.

This breaks the heart.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[procon]

5. The contrast is striking.

In the US, the photo would more likely show squads of heavily armed commandos in face masks and full body armor, bristling with loaded weapons pointed directly at the crowd while yelling at them through a bullhorn from atop a military vehicle with machine guns sweeping across the terrified family groups. The little girl would be frightened by the show of militaristic posturing and burying her face in her mama's skirts, crying in terror as teargas was lobbed into the crowd and 'non-lethal' rubber bullets struck people indiscriminately.