Questions tagged [refugees]
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Did a 5-year-old refugee die at the Greece-Turkey border?
This archived version of an article from Der Spiegel claims that a 5-year-old refugee girl died helpless in an island at the Greece-Turkey border because she was stung by a scorpion (also found in: Le ...
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"Applicants for asylum must prove that they have fifteen family members in the Netherlands."
Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (2018) claim in their book The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect:
Applicants for asylum must prove that they have fifteen family members in
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Is Germany paying for vacations for refugees to the refugees' home countries?
This article The German Government Is Paying For Refugees To Return Home For 3-Week Vacation on noted blog Zerohedge.com, lifted in its entirety from another source, claims:
I am in Germany on ...
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Are refugees forced across the Mediterranean Sea by traffickers against their will?
So far media has painted the picture that African refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea pay huge sums to traffickers to be brought to Europe.
In an interview with BR24 Claus-Peter Reisch, captain ...
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Did Germany deny asylum because victim of blood feud could settle feud by giving two daughters to his enemies for marriage?
As far as I can tell Volker Gerloff is a real lawyer (website, facebook looks good at first glance, website links to facebook page). He writes on facebook:
Das BAMF schafft es immer wieder, zu ...
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Are there more refugees now than at any time since World War II?
This claim is a commonly heard one. For example, in an op-ed today in The Age (Melbourne Australia's newspaper of record) it is written that
In a world awash in more refugees than at any time ...
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Are these images showing the European refugee migration to North Aftrica during world war 2?
I recently encountered the following images in Facebook with the caption:
"These aren't Syrians, Libyans or Africans; they are Europeans trying to get to North Africa during the last world war. So, ...
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Do most Syrian refugees want eventually to return to Syria?
Jordan's King Abdullah II said at a press conference with President Trump that Syrian refugees want to return to Syria (live video of press conference, can't find archived video yet).
The statement ...
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Did CNN use these 3 different photos of the same girl being rescued?
Here is a link to the meme on Facebook.
Here is the meme itself:
Caption:
When CNN uses the same girl
In 3 different Refugee Crisis pictures being saved by 3 different men
The meme has 35000+ shares.
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Was Jesus a refugee? [closed]
There are claims that Jesus was a refugee. For example, Al Sharpton tweeted,
According to the New Testament, was Jesus a refugee?
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Are 90% of Middle Eastern refugees on food stamps in the United States?
According to Never Again Canada:
More than 90 percent of recent refugees from Middle Eastern nations are on food stamps and nearly 70 percent receive cash assistance, according to government data.
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Was Sergei Brin a refugee?
According to the World Economic Forum:
5 refugees who changed the world
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Sergey Brin
He might be one of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, but Sergey Brin was not actually born in the US. In ...
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Did Angela Merkel push to allow refugees to be employed as truck drivers?
This Express article claims that Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, pushed to allow refugees to be more easily employed as truck (lorry) drivers.
But as the country mourns the tragedy ahead of ...
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Did the police in Italy force an elderly hotel owner to house African Illegal Immigrants on his property?
This YouTube video documents an altercation in an Italian hotel:
Italian Police have forced an elderly Hotel owner in Ficarolo (Rovigo) to house and provide for fifteen African illegal Immigrants on ...
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Were 700000 Arab Palestinians forced out of their homes by Zionists?
Foreign policy says:
In the course of the war that ensued, Israel implemented a policy of
ethnic cleansing. 700,000 Arab Palestinians were either forced from
their homes or fled out of fear of ...
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