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The number of people who cross borders irregularly to Europe or in the world is actually much lower than people think.

In the last four years, the number of people who crossed from all of Africa and the Middle East,

Turkey, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia to the European Union

is around 100,000 a year.

And very few of whom will qualify for protection as refugees.

So they leave for other reasons.

There's a myth that then, well, if a hundred thousand come, next year a million will come

and then next year five million. You have a rhetoric including from some

international organizations that says that tens of millions of people are on the road around the world

as migrants or as refugees trying to get to rich countries.

In reality the numbers crossing from Africa to Europe in the last 20 years, on average, were a few

ten thousand a year.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

For the last week there have been at least four big controversies taking up oxygen in American life. First there was people like

the musician Neil Young pulling the music from Spotify in an attempt to

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