{"id":6669,"date":"2016-11-11T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2019-03-23T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:32:49","slug":"french-underground-railroad-moving-african-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/2016\/11\/11\/french-underground-railroad-moving-african-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"French Underground Railroad, Moving African Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/10\/02\/world\/europe\/02smuggler2\/02smuggler2-master675.jpg\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Pierre Terdjman (<i>The New York Times<\/i>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Flashes of the past aren\u2019t hard to see if you don\u2019t close your eyes. Many French see past injustices repeat in the quaint train stations of rural southern France as African migrants are rounded up and sent back to Italy where they will most likely be again deported. The scene was too much for some as \u201csmartly dressed passengers averted their gaze.\u201d Part of the local French population see it as their civic responsibility to turn in any migrants to the authorities while others disobey their government and fight for those who have no money, no common language and simply want to escape whatever misfortune lies behind them. Sadly, it seems misfortune is just as universal as man\u2019s desperate battle to stop it.<br \/>\n\u201cEither I close my eyes, or I don\u2019t,\u201d says one French migrant smuggler, an echo of Desmond Tutu\u2019s reflection, \u201cIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/05\/world\/europe\/france-italy-migrants-smuggling.html\">Read the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Pierre Terdjman (The New York Times) Flashes of the past aren\u2019t hard to see if you don\u2019t close your eyes. Many French see past injustices repeat in the quaint train stations of rural southern France as African migrants are rounded up and sent back to Italy where they will most likely be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawidesign.com\/test\/partisan-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}