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September 16, 2015

Refugees Enter Croatia After Hungary Criminalizes Border Crossing 
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In news from Europe, about 150 refugees have crossed into Croatia after
they were blocked at the Hungarian-Serbian border. Hungary has sealed
its border with Serbia and enacted new laws that criminalize border
crossings with up to three years' imprisonment. Meanwhile, President
Obama discussed the growing global refugee crisis during a meeting with
Spain's King Felipe VI, saying the U.S. needs to take in Syrian
refugees.

President Obama: "We agreed that this is going to require cooperation
with all the European countries and the United States and the
international community in order to ensure that people are safe, that
they are treated with shared humanity, and that we ultimately have to
deal with the source of the problem, which is the ongoing crisis in
Syria. And we discussed how we can continue to strengthen that
cooperation, and I discussed the fact that the United States feels it is
important for us to also take our share of Syrian refugees as part of
this overall humanitarian effort."

 

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