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The motion: “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...”. In favour: Louise Arbour + Simon Schama. Against: Nigel Farage + Mark Steyn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGTeFT8AHY

Truncated Title. Full Title: GOP Rep.: GOP Leadership Failed to Negotiate Syrian Refugee Screening in Omnibus Bill, Called it a ‘Non-Starter’ for Dems President Obama is intent on admitting thousands of refugees from terrorist hotspots to the U.S. but House Republicans failed to negotiate screening protections for the influx in last year’s omnibus spending bill, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX). “They promised me that they were going to have it in there and that they would fight for it and when it didn’t get in there I asked them, they said it was a non-starter with the Democrats,” Babin...

The United States will provide an additional $20 million (18 million euros) in aid for refugees in Europe, a senior US official said Monday. Heather Higginbottom, US deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said this brings Washington’s total commitment to Europe’s migration crisis to $43.6 million since last year.

EU leaders will discuss the critical situation in Libya and potential waves of immigrants trying to reach Europe on 18 April, EurActiv Greece has been informed. The discussion will take place following the regular Foreign Affairs Council meeting and ahead of Foreign Affairs Council Defence on 19 April, in Luxembourg. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday (24 March) that some 800,000 migrants are in Libya hoping to cross to Europe. Le Drian told Europe 1 radio that “hundreds of thousands” of migrants were in Libya, having fled conflict and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere, adding that...

Obama reiterates refugee promise In a brief Easter weekend radio address, President Obama vowed to decimate the self-proclaimed Islamic State, but he said the United States will do so by offering an example of freedom, tolerance and open society. “Our openness to refugees fleeing ISIL’s violence; our determination to win the battle against ISIL’s hateful and violent propaganda — a distorted view of Islam that aims to radicalize young Muslims to their cause,” are paramount in the fight, Obama told Americans during his weekly radio address. Admitting entry to Syrian and Iraqi refugees has become a divisive issue in the...

Poland's government says it is not prepared to accept any refugees following the deadly attacks in Brussels. The ruling party, Law and Justice, is staunchly anti-migrant, but had previously indicated it would respect a commitment by the previous government to resettle around 7,000 refugees. But government spokesman Rafal Bochenek indicated Wednesday that Prime Minister Beata Szydlo's government is reversing that position. He said that "at the moment Poland is not able to accept immigrants." He said the government fears that Europe is not able to eliminate security risks connected to the mass influx of migrants, adding: "for us the most...

Germany saw a record two million ‘foreigners’ arrive in 2015 – more than the number of asylum seekers who came between 1954-1989. According to the head of the Statistics Agency, however, it could be a conservative estimate. Numbers released Monday by the German Federal Statistics Office show a massive increase in total migrants from the previous year. In 2014 Germany received some 1.3 million total migrants, increasing by more than 700,000 on 2015. The Statistics Office asserted that the real figures for 2015 could be even higher than officially reported, however, because far from all migrants who came to the...

A Breitbart News review of State Department and Homeland Security data reveals that the United States already admits more than a quarter of a million Muslim migrants each year.To put these numbers into perspective, this means that every year the U.S. admits a number of Muslim migrants larger in size than the entire population of Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; or Dayton, Ohio.

German police are investigating another horrific gang rape apparently involving a seven-year-old girl who had been living at an asylum centre. The incident allegedly happened in Hamburg where the girl had been accepted at a first registration home in the city's quarter of Bahrenfeld. Police were called in the early evening after a report that a seven-year-old girl was the victim of a gang rape at the centre on the Albert-Einstein-Ring road. The suspected attackers were named in German media as five Arabic men, although it is unclear if they were just visiting the asylum centre or whether they were...

Bill Clinton: Europe a Mess Because of Migrants 11:57 AM, Mar 22, 2016 | By SHOSHANA WEISSMANN On Monday, former President Bill Clinton blamed disaster in Europe on migrants. He also seemed to suggest the migrants are causing Europeans to fear diversity. "Things are going better in America, the European Union is under terrible stress because of all those migrants that are coming there and the fights they're having within each other, many of them are moving to the right and becoming much more afraid of diversity even as we embrace it"

Somali 'refugee' influx continues unabated Obama sending 700 per month to U.S. cities despite admitted 'terror-recruitment problem' The Islamic State’s Cyber Army used an online cellphone app to post a “kill list” of names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information on 36 police officers in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The FBI said this week it is investigating the case but analysts say it’s obvious why ISIS chose to target the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The area is home to America’s largest Somali refugee community and has been a hotbed of Islamic terrorist recruitment dating back to at least...

The FBI and the DHS have repeatedly said that it is a risk to bring in more refugees! We need a moratorium on this NOW! The head of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday said that the United States’s acceptance of Syrian refugees could pose a national security threat. Even as President Obama has called for the U.S. to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees this year, Secretary Jeh Johnson maintained during a hearing on Capitol Hill that the initiative is not risk-free. “In all candor, I do agree that the refugee flow coming out of Iraq and Syria represents a...

Europe's migrant crisis has kicked climate change off the agenda of EU leaders' talks this week, officials said, prompting accusations from green campaigners that the European Union has given up its leadership on environmental issues.

A senior German academic has joined the chorus of voices expressing concern over the low educational standards of newly arriving migrants, and the significant knock-on effects that is bound to have on the German educational system. President of the University of Hamburg and chairman of the German Educational Action Council Dieter Lenzen has pointed to the enormous cost of teaching hundreds of thousands of newcomers basic language skills, pointing in particular to the Syrian community. While the proportion of Syrians arriving and claiming to have university degrees — around 15 per cent — isn’t much below the German population as...

German leader Angela Merkel has remained defiant by confirming she will not change her 'open door' policy on migrants despite a crushing defeat in state elections which gave a far-right party big gains. Pressure is growing on the chancellor after her Christian Democrats Union (CDU) lost two of the three states voting to other parties - in what was described as a 'worst case scenario' for the embattled Mrs Merkel. It came as the CDU was also humiliated by the anti-immigrant AfD – Alternative for Germany – party, which has surged in popularity following Mrs Merkel’s decision to roll out...

You probably never heard about this but in December, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) successfully pushed through Congress his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will also fund visas for nearly 300,000 more Muslim migrants over the next 12 months. Breitbart The omnibus bill also funded sanctuary cities, illegal alien tax credits, and changed federal law to allow for a massive increase in low-skilled H-2B workers– an immigration expansion opposed by more than nine in ten GOP voters. Yet at the first gathering of all House Republicans since the omnibus’s passage, Politico reports that GOP lawmakers gave Ryan a...

George Soros has a "solution" to the Muslim migrant problem. As usual, his solution is to make things much worse. But I have a solution to the Soros problem. Why not put him on trial for war crimes? We've put Nazis who were older than him on trial. There's no statute of limitations. And unlike many of them, Soros has gone on committing crimes against humanity even after WW2.

But while multiple countries have now suspended the bloc's beloved Schengen in an effort to "stop the madness," as it were, it's too late to stop the chaos. As we've documented extensively, Europe was remarkably resilient in the wake of the Paris attacks, but after New Year's Eve, when (rightly or wrongly) adult male Mid-East asylum seekers garnered a reputation for sexual assault, sentiment soured. Markedly. Since then, the entirety of the EU has been on high alert. Not for terrorists, but for sexual predators of "foreign origin." One particularly divisive issue is the extent to which officials have tended...

Everyone assumed it would be the threat (or the reality) of international terrorism that would ultimately break Europe’s resolve when it came to goodwill towards Mid-East refugees. Indeed, we remember vividly when the first reports of a “Kalashnikov assault” on cafes in the French capital hit social media on that fateful Friday in November. “That’s it,” we assumed, for Europe’s experiment with an open-door migrant policy. In spite of the violence and in spite of the chaos that ensued (manhunts across France, lockdowns in Molenbeek, a shootout in Saint-Deni) Europe largely kept its arms open to refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,...

A look inside Norway's courses teaching refugees about sexual customs in their new country. "She kissed him -- it's an invitation to have sex." The asylum seeker's answer hangs in the air. The instructor's smile falters, and an explanation is required. In Norway, migrants are being given courses to prevent violence against women, especially rape, and to teach them how to interpret customs in a country that may seem surprisingly liberal to them. The courses were introduced several years ago, but have become particularly topical after complaints of mass sexual assault on New Year's Eve in the German city of...