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descritpion: This week’s EU heads of government summit to discuss the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean needs to adopt a hard-headed and pragmatic approach to a dreadful problem to which finger-pointing and hand-wringing are not the answers. The temptation to accede to demands from human rights groups for a legitimate route into Europe for the tide of humanity gathering on the North African shore needs to be resisted
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Description: More than 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe this year, the International Organization for Migration reported just a day before an overcrowded fishing boat carrying at least 600 migrants capsized off Zuwara, Libya.
Importance: the article states “We have seen a constant and intense flux of arrivals, and many unaccompanied children, but the real problem is the number of dead. It is much higher than years past,” -
description: More than four million refugees of the Syrian Civil War have left the country during the course of the war.turkey has become the world's biggest refugee hosting country with 2.2 million Syrian refugees and had spent more than US$7.6 billion on direct assistance to refugees.
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descritpion: Congressional Republicans voted on Thursday to make it more difficult for refugees from Syria and Iraq to come to the US as the fallout from last Friday’s Isis terrorist attacks in Paris continues.
Importance: this is good and bad becasue it can prevent a potential terrorist attack but also leaving people without a home is terrible. -
description: A Danish government proposal to seize assets of asylum-seekers to make them pay for their keep has drawn sharp criticism in international media.By them siezeing the migrants it helps them keep them out.
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