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BLiNK: Refugee crisis: Is Britain doing enough? - Saira Grant

British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees, but is that enough?
Filmed and directed by William Pine and Charles B. Anthony

We are facing the largest global refugee crisis since the second world war. British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees, but is this enough? I asked Saira Grant, Legal and Policy Director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, for her thoughts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQMBU8xq1jo

Listen to the full eighteen-minute interview where Saira explains why Britain and the EU’s response is far from fulfilling it’s legal and moral obligations:

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