Source: ASSIST News, January 10, 2016<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is raining like crazy in Lesvos tonight and people who got soaking wet arriving on boats today have not been able to dry up at all,\u201d [writes refugee advocate Zrinka Bralo]. \u201cI met a great crew from Zagreb on the beach today. They are working with unaccompanied minors in Moria camp and came out to help on the beach. It was truly humbling to see the efforts to of one American lifeguard from the Dutch Boat Refugee Foundation to save a life of a man who was so hypothermic that he slipped away and stopped shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zrinka went on to say, \u201cI am still sticking with my policy of not taking photos of people in distress, especially children. I am also finding it increasingly difficult to restrain myself when I see other people hugging children off the boat and pulling out big lens cameras and sticking it into the terrified children\u2019s faces. But that is another story. I leave you tonight with my rage, my guilt, and a few photos of the fake life jackets I struggled to pull off tiny children this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recently police have raided and arrested people working in factories in Turkey making these \u201cfake life jackets\u201d to sell to the people. The Guardian<\/a> reports that police allegedly seized 1,263 lifejackets filled with non-buoyant materials from an illegal workshop in Izmir that employed two Syrian children, according to Agence France-Presse and Dogan news agencies.<\/p>\n The raid came in the same week that the bodies of more than 30 people washed up on Turkish beaches, having drowned in their attempt to reach Greece. Some of the dead were pictured wearing lifejackets, leading to suspicions that they may have been fake.<\/p>\n \u00bb See full story with pictures<\/a> and read Turkish police find factory making fake lifejackets in Izmir<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Other stories related to the refugee crisis report that nine Christian leaders in Australia were arrested for protesting deportation of refugees<\/a> (Christian Post \/ Christian Headlines) and that refugees were tear-gassed in France<\/a> (Foreign Policy) and Macedonia<\/a> (Al Jazeera). See also A Street View of Immigration<\/a> (SAT-7 video).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: ASSIST News, January 10, 2016 \u201cIt is raining like crazy in Lesvos tonight and people who got soaking wet arriving on boats today have not been able to dry up at all,\u201d [writes refugee advocate Zrinka Bralo]. \u201cI met a great crew from Zagreb on the beach today. They are working with unaccompanied minors … Continue reading MEDITERRANEAN: Migrants Sold Fake Life Jackets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}