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LittleBlue

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11. Exactly

Reply to Kotya (Reply #10)

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 02:07 PM

Sep 2015

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NY Times: A Migration Juggernaut Is Headed for Europe [View all] Binkie The Clown Sep 2015 OP

Wouldn't going south be the better option? nt ChisolmTrailDem Sep 2015 #1

To be appalingly cynical about it Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #2

A welfare state needs population growth to make ends meet. closeupready Sep 2015 #3

I feel the same way. You had Eritreans showing up as refugees in Italy LittleBlue Sep 2015 #4

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya were colonized by Italy. France ruled Syria. It's not just leveymg Sep 2015 #5

Ummmmm Ethiopia resisted colonialism bro LittleBlue Sep 2015 #6

The Abyssinian empire included northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. leveymg Sep 2015 #9

Duh I know the history. Yes, the Abyssinian empire included lands that today are many nations LittleBlue Sep 2015 #12

In driving around this Ethiopian cul d' sac, you've still not addressed the point that was made. leveymg Sep 2015 #13

Liberia has an even weaker colonial history to the US, than closeupready Sep 2015 #14

You're right about Liberia. We certainly need to do more in West Africa. leveymg Sep 2015 #15

Economic immigrants nichomachus Sep 2015 #7

Times have changed LittleBlue Sep 2015 #8

It'll end when Europe, fed up, votes in far-right wing governments Kotya Sep 2015 #10

Exactly LittleBlue Sep 2015 #11

That's been going on since the 1840s, when Irish migration was considered a subhuman wave leveymg Sep 2015 #16

Far-right governments will "solve" the refugee problem? Should the left seek a "far-right" solution? pampango Sep 2015 #18

I don't have a say in the matter. I don't vote in European elections. Kotya Sep 2015 #19

Then call them what they are. Igel Sep 2015 #17

I guess all those Syrian refugees should just spend their lives in tent camps in the desert. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #20

Do you believe those Syrians (or anyone else) have a branford Sep 2015 #21

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