Questions tagged [refugees]
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Are refugees in the UK holidaying in the countries they fled from?
According to UK Conservative MP Adam Holloway, quoted in the Daily Express:
“Likewise, we have people in this country who have come here, claimed asylum and then go back on holiday in the places where they’ve claimed asylum from."
Is there any…
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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
the Netherlands.
This seems like a very high bar for gaining…
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Have German citizens been evicted to make room for refugees?
The Daily Mail reports:
German woman becomes the second to be evicted from her home to make room for migrants
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A German woman is being booted out of her home of 23 years to make room for migrants.
Gabrielle Keller is the second such case to…
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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 business and did not see the place overrun with…
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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.
Were these photos published or used by CNN?
If…
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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 his property against his will. The footage,…
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Was Jesus a refugee?
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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Did Canadian children sing the Islamic song "Tala'al badru" to welcome Syrian refugees?
Saw this video being shared around in the social media, ostensibly a performance by Canadian children to welcome Syrian refugees' arrival to Canada. I recognized the song as the Islamic song Tala' al Badru 'Alayna. According to Wikipedia it was…
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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, next time you think of closing the borders you…
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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.
According to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)…
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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 verblüffen. Mein Mandant ist
Afghane und es ist…
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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 is similar to one made by Ben Carson two years ago…
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Have two out of only 27 Muslim refugees in Japan been arrested for sexual assault?
Have two out of only 27 Muslim refugees in Japan been arrested for sexual assault?
Example claim: Japan Accepts 27 Muslim Refugees, Immediately Gets Taste Of Islamic Gratitude and plenty of people have been blogging or tweeting the same…
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Is Saudi Arabia hosting ~2.5 million Syrian refugees?
After being criticized for not doing enough to help refugees, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that they have been helping after all. Among others, it specifically claims that it has taken more than 2.5 million Syrians.
The…
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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 since World War
Two...
I've always thought this…
