Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Migrants and Refugees (HBO)

your you know that thing Belgium is in if if you watch the news at all lately

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you cannot have missed what has been happening there

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Europe's migrant crisis is getting worse by the day in my current crisis

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spiralling out of control hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers are risking

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everything on human wave washing over Europe southern shores hundreds of

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thousands of migrants have streamed into Europe the largest influx there since

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the end of World War Two wow the launches since the end of World War Two

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and remember millions of people back then was searching both for a better

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life until the booth where it was rumored you could slap 28 hitler and

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unlock the scale of this story can be hard to get your head around hundreds of

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thousands of people on the move just within Europe and another four million

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are being hosted in Turkey Lebanon and Jordan and when numbers get that high

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they can be hard to comprehend it's like when someone tells you the size of the

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audience of NCIS New Orleans 17 million people how's that even possible how many

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navy placed crimes could there possibly be in new owners and when you are

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dealing with a mass of people that large you really want to be a little careful

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with how you describe them unfortunately David Cameron noted alleged swine

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fellatio recently referred to a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean

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and that language matters because a swarm of anything sounds terrifying no

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matter what it is if I hear there are a lot of Kings coming my way I'm going to

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be delighted

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but if I hear there is a small approaching I'm grabbing a shotgun and

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I'm getting too high ground I'm not going to let those for Rifqa strike me

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like some in the media have chosen to reduce the migrant population to one

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simple stereotype a new video services online showing why some are worried

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Europe is opening its doors to potential terrorists are reportedly muslim

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refugees on a train in europe chanting Allah Akbar or god is great to be clear

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we're not saying that any of those people are terrorists or in any way

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affiliated with a terror group but it does highlight just how many of these

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refugees who are fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria are Muslim ok ok you

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don't get to claim that you're not calling those people terrorists when you

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lower third says terrorists in pound question mark if you are really not

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saying that terrorists might be changed to something more accurate like people

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take train somewhere hats of those left

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and second video on the migrant crisis is a little misleading we found a video

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uploaded onto YouTube back in 2010

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well before this crisis even began and if you are going to use misleading old

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footage to try and make people frightened of Muslims why stop there

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just go the whole way and use a clip from true lies to be clear we're not

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saying that any of those people are terrorists or in any way affiliated with

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a terror group but it does highlight just how many of these refugees who are

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fleeing violence let's just take a step back because for the record these people

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coming from many different countries and playing everything from civil war

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economic stagnation each story is unique

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many of them 16 and from Syria disabled from birth she kind of war and made the

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dangerous crossing from Turkey last week

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understand why the world every country has returned for registration on

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december the 21st and that could be a tricky three-month wait because he's not

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allowed to work in that time and yet that is nothing compared to this forum

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given to an Iraqi refugees in Turkey telling him to come back on june 15 2017

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which sounds bad before you know just the pink sticky note added at the bottom

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clarifying that he's actual date will be February 19 20 21 that is ridiculous

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these people can't go five years without working their refugees not Renee

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Zellweger

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and facing that kind of limbo it's no wonder refugees want to try to push

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deeper into your and many of them one surprising country in particular that

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seems to actually want them they keep coming

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thousands every day at the main train station in Munich preferred destination

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for so many refugees amazingly one of the warmest welcome to offer to

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immigrants comes from Germany a country whose idea of a bedtime story is to

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children being left to die in the forest reporting nearly cooked and then

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motoring and unfortunately many politicians in other countries in

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Germany actively hostile to anyone even considering settling within their

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borders no way it's a Danish government has published the Lebanese newspapers

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the text is obviously written in Arabic and it's selling migrants don't come to

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Denmark regulations and constraints that await them there

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Denmark is so averse to taking people in its basically placing intentionally

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missed connections as in other countries

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Danish government official you person in the lebanese refugee camp from the

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moment I saw you I knew that was nothing between us and it could never work

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perfect sent even approach things friendly next to the video apparently

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produced

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of Ashutosh in Hungary showing exactly how he and his police will tease will

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prevent migrants from coming to town

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scary music as you want

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there is nothing imposing about one van driving along on a country road the only

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message that he's sending democracies make sure you wait for that one van

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surpassed by border police and nightclub bouncers are not about to throw some

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girls with them and that is no outlier hungary has been responsible for at

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least mistreatment of refugees in Europe

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of caged animals in a holding pen it's a shocking video garnered attention from

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around the world as waves of desperate migrants holding Kevin hungry a

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camerawoman running the woman also other migrants as they run including a young

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girl now the cameraman is out of a job

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oh I'm sorry she lost her job that's absolutely terrible don't worry I'm sure

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she can find a new one on actual monster.com

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to be fair she later apologized saying I'm not a heartless racist children

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kicking camerawoman which occurred only presuming she's a loving accepting

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children kicking camerawoman children kicking part is not really up for debate

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anymore even those countries who are offering to take refugees are sometimes

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making those offers indeed most insulting Lee selective way that

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Christians Muslims migrants coming into the country Muslim asylum-seekers

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because they haven't got any mosque in case you don't have any mosques you can

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build mosques don't naturally occur in the wild

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erosion particularly devout Muslims to resettle in Scottsdale Arizona and when

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refugees I'm not be excluded on the basis of religion that being accused of

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being lazy freeloaders just listen to one published MEP address the European

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Parliament benefits and pretty strong words coming from the Polish Six Flags

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going and what what he said he's not just offensive it's also wrong research

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has shown that while some small costs in the short term eventually an influx of

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immigrants into a community tends to raise wages for everyone else and I

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working paper published last year

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economies found that immigration benefited local population in nineteen

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of the 20 industrialized countries they start adding immigrants makes things

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better nineteen times

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up to 20 that's a success rate matched only by bacon and Paul rut and it's it's

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just a little hard to hear these migrants and refugees being pulled lazy

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considering how hard many of them have worked to reach Europe in the first

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place you would want to talk about

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migrants played on the only things always escape public indifference and it

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almost certain future as the total of Prince Harry's entourage as a continent

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according to the UN the average woman needs to have 2.1 children to maintain

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the population of a developed country but in the European Union every single

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country is below that 2.1 level by 2050 some countries like Greece Portugal and

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Germany will see that populations dropped by double-digit percentages

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according to Pew if you're doesn't open its doors to more migrant this is not

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the changing face of Europe should be frightened Gulf this is everything is

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going to be the perfect economic Wellspring but instead of worrying about

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the hypothetical downside of letting these migrant seen country should be

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more worried about the actual downside of turning them if you might miss out on

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someone like imogene who seems like she would in any country that would just

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listen to how she told herself English

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in fact even into marriage Walker who is also impregnated and then he kidnaps

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sammy's baby and I don't think it was dead shot him in the head but you know

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what that's the kind of thing couples do besides go through all that and yes yes

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I did then cheat on Sammy before their wedding with that Trollope apical

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temporal but he still didn't deserve to die from yet another gunshot wound even

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though yes it was the best reckless from to have a secret meeting with hillbilly

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drug lord k-lite Western in the middle of the points

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and any country would be lucky to have her lots of people still have these

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fears that migrants will bankrupt social systems which many studies show does not

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happen

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fears that migrants might have an ice member looking among them which there

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has been no credible example of and no one is saying this is easy but the fact

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it's so hard is not a reason to do less reason to do more from countries

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expediting the application process to properly funding the UN High Commission

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for Refugees responding to Syrian refugees in neighboring countries is

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less than half of where it needs to be to simply and I know this sounds crazy

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just not kicking them when they're moving around and there is actually one

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thing that we thought we could do it is admittedly very small and it is just 41

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refugees and we sold justifiably saddened by the death of EJ from days of

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our lives we made some calls and we have a surprise that he's literally just for

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you

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bigotry and hatred from a child that my child I read about this incredible 16

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year old girl from yes jeans