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To the Point

Will Europe Close Its Borders to Migrants and Refugees?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Record numbers of migrants and refugees are fleeing war­torn and impoverished countries for Europe, sometimes losing their lives in the process. Can the European Union agree on a unified immigration strategy and maintain its open border policy while also cracking down on human trafficking? 

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories.

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0:18.1

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

0:26.4

Europe's migrant crisis, the EU's greatest test yet.

0:33.0

I'm Barbara Bogave sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio

0:36.8

International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

0:40.7

Last week's discovery of 71 bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria is just the latest tragic proof that Europe's migration crisis has broadened from the Mediterranean to human trafficking over land.

0:52.1

Tens of thousands of migrants and refugees are putting their lives

0:55.1

in the hands of smugglers. But as the numbers and the bodies mount, can the EU find solidarity

1:00.3

on how to treat migrants and asylum seekers and what to do about a growing backlash against

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them? Also on today's talking point, the man who introduced us to so many wonders of the mind

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and the heart. We remember the writer and scientist Oliver Sacks. First, the man who introduced us to so many wonders of the mind and the heart.

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International Program Fund. And we're back with To the Point. I'm Barbara Bogavin for Warren

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Alney. Just ahead, record

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numbers of migrants and refugees are fleeing war-torn and impoverished countries for Europe,

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