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Chili Billy.

I am also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Is the U.S. taking its fair share of international refugees?

Hello again, I'm Orman Al-Nan. This is To the Point from Public Radio International.

More than a million refugees crowded into Europe last year, and Germany made a deal with Turkey

to help reduce the flow. That's forcing migrants to choose a more dangerous route from Libya to Italy.

Last week alone, almost a thousand drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Now the deal with Turkey

may be in trouble, but that won't reduce the flight of desperate fugitives from the Middle East

in Africa.

The U.S. has agreed to take just 75,000 after exhaustive screening.

So few have made it that America is being accused of failing to meet its moral obligations.

Today's talking point is it all in the genes after all.

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