9.07.2015

People

Barack Obama’s debt to Syria’s huddled masses - FT.com

"America’s abstention so far from Syria’s human crisis can be measured in numbers. Germany has put its European neighbours to shame by saying it will process up to 800,000 refugee applications — a multiple of the rest of Europe put together. Since the start of Syria’s civil war, the US has taken just 1,434.

"There was a period when the US was deporting more Mexican immigrants than that every day."

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