CNN’s Weir Quotes Warsan Shire Poem, ‘Home,’ in Heralding Migrant Caravan

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WEIR: “You have to understand — put yourself in the mind of somebody who would sell everything they have, pick up their child and walk 3,000 miles in flip-flops. They’re not thinking about American politics. They are putting them, as Rosalin does, their faith in a higher power to get them across. These are people running from a burning building. I keep quoting the great poem by Warsan Shire 'Home' and says, you only leave home when home is the mouth of a shark, you only run for the border when you see the whole city running. So the violence in Honduras was the big motivation, the big part of that caravan.”