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circuiter | 10 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W...

Their nearby brethren have already taken in MILLIONS of refugees. It took only a few hundred thousand in Europe for the media circus to begin and for their plight to be put in the spotlight.

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jacobush|10 years ago

Lebanon took a million and a half or thereabouts.

sremani|10 years ago

Jordan and Turkey also absorbed massive refugees. But the ones making to Europe are industrious and economically sophisticated, they are in it for more than personal/family safety. If you are educated and industrious why would you accept squalor conditions in refugee camp, if I were them I would do the same. The irony is ISIS's propaganda heavily relies on Europe born second generation Immigrants.

mrdodge|10 years ago

And look how that is turning out for them.