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The EU accused Turkey of using the migrants to pressure Brussels to offer more money or support for Ankara's geopolitical aims in the Syrian conflict. Turkey is hosting about 4 million refugees and migrants that have reportedly destabilized the country, and Erdogan is desperate to remove them.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Erdogan’s failing attempt to flood Europe with migrants kept in Turkey as a weapon to pressure EU and NATO members to support his war in Syria.
So far the Greek and Bulgarian governments have held firm in keeping the borders closed to migrants being pushed towards border crossings by Turkish authorities.

Montenegro will deploy troops along its borders in response to the growing number of migrants crossing over into the country, on a new Balkan route toward the European Union. Last year, around 8000 migrants from North Africa and the Middle East crossed Montenegro, heading West, toward the richer countries. This number is double that registered in 2018 according to the International Organization for Migration.

An alleged human trafficker reported that French authorities are helping smuggle people across the channel to the UK so migrants will leave France.

Roberto Lovato argues that while Trump’s racist anti-immigrant rhetoric is unprecedented, US cruelty towards Central American refugees is longstanding, and…
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A Syrian refugee in Turkey, originally from a small town in Aleppo. A new generation of children living in countries that are receiving migrants needs to learn about those people and their worth, says a new report from Unesco, in order to counter misunderstandings. MUSE MOHAMMED/IOM
As outrage and horror build around stories of refugee children, some still in diapers, seized from their parents and suffering neglect and abuse along the United States border with Mexico, Unesco, the United Nations organization with education in its mandate, is looking ahead.

Approximately 500 undocumented African migrants stormed Terminal 2 of the Charles de Gaulle airport. A leader of the group was heard yelling into a loudspeaker that France does not belong to the French and that everyone has a right to live there.

Salvini is confronted by a leftist who calls him a murderer for rejecting mass immigration. Salvini turns the tables by asking the man for his name and address so 10 or 20 migrants can be sent to live there. Salvini says the real murderers are the smugglers who buy weapons and drugs with their ill-gotten gains.

A caravan from Honduras was given food, shelter, and 49 buses to take them to unsecured areas of the Texas border. The buses were supplied by private companies at the request of the Mexican government.

With only weeks to go to Brexit’s target date, there is deadlock in the British parliament, recriminations on both sides, and, writes Russell Merryman, a growing realisation that what was promised might be impossible to deliver.
Anti-Brexit sentiment is growing as the deadline for Article 50 approaches [MERRYMAN]
We’ve all heard of the thought experiment involving a cat and a piece of radioactive material locked together in a box, the decaying material could, at any moment, give off an atomic particle which would kill the cat.