In haven for Mideast emigres, a hope U.S. will take more refugees

DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Akeel Asady, the usually cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his refugee family’s desperate attempt to make it to Greece.

Asady was once a refugee who fled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq in the early 1990s and lived in a tent in Saudi Arabia's desert for more than two years before a Christian agency brought him to the United States.