Homeland star Mandy Patinkin has said we need to give refugees a "welcome" after helping dozens of people come ashore on the Greek island of Lesbos.
The actor, who plays CIA agent Saul Berenson in the show, travelled to Lesbos after finishing filming the fifth series in Berlin a few weeks ago.
In the video posted on the International Rescue Committee's Facebook page he can be seen standing on a beach as an inflatable boat arrives.
He carries a small girl in a pink coat to shore as other people leap to safety.
"I just don't get it, how people let this happen to people," he tells the camera.
Hundreds of life jackets discarded after previous journeys are piled up behind him.
"Then I don't get how when wonderful people like the people in Greece are bringing these people here and helping them.
"How people in different countries all over the world can be frightened of people who've suffered so much, who are so in need."
"Who are just desperately asking to have freedom, justice and dignity."
Patinkin becomes more emotional as he says: "Just give them a welcome and let them in to your home.
"After risking their lives in these conditions, give them a good shot. Help them, God Almighty, help them."
In an article he wrote for the Washington Post Patinkin compared the refugees' journeys to those made by his own relatives who fled Poland and Russia in the 20th century.
"As I listened to the stories of these new generations of refugee families and thought of past generations of my own, the fear-mongering news cycles faded away, and I saw clearly that we cannot fight fear and hatred with more fear and hatred.
"We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity," he wrote.
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