Refugees go USA

Nov 23, 2015, 09:01 AM

"Give me your poor huddled masses" is what the Statue of Liberty says, but now the House of Representatives has said stop, no more Syrian refugees should come to the US. But America's more open history has left a legacy of many refugee communities around the country. It has also served as an experiment in different ways to integrate the new arrivals. I went to Clarkston in Georgia, a town once 80% white that is now 80% refugee - the local high school pictured here has fifty-three nationalities of pupil. This is my report on how it's going: