Pictures of migrant-exiles from the Middle East, not just Syrians but Iraqis and Afghanis as well, are currently being transmitted by CNN, Aljazeera English and other news giants to homes all over the world in customary repetition which most of us would agree exceeds the canons of proper news reporting.
Fodder news portraying human pain and misery are being presented to viewing masses, too often depicting unwarranted blame and/or lack of humanity from/by Europeans who are trying to cope with an inherited humanitarian crisis not entirely of their making. Rich sister Germany is somehow expected to offer leadership, and problem-solving direction, in managing this new crisis for Europe. Greece, Serbia, Hungary and Austria are becoming transit stations for this migrant humanity in the yellow-brick which extends from Turkey to the promised Oz: Germany.
Amid this crisis-in-progress, Viktor Orban’s racially-charged comments announcing a lack of desire by Hungary to increase its foreign-born population acquires the same timbre and tone as those of America’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump. But aren’t these self-exiles supposedly “political” migrants, not the economic migrants entering the US overwhelmingly from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America? These migrant waves are branded, inaccurately perhaps, with the same umbrella term… whether their odyssey is motivated by economic, social or political reasons. And, truth be said, the economic reason does weigh heavily or you wouldn’t have Germany and the United States as the two major preferred destination points.
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