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The Political Response to Europe’s Migration Crisis Has Been Shameful (The Independent)

June 26, 2015

From article: 

There is an arrogance in our assumption that everyone would rush here from developing nations. When the US opened access to people from impoverished Micronesia, for example, fewer than 6 per cent of its people moved. Michael Clemens at the Centre for Global Development argues that Europe’s population would rise 10 per cent, with Germany hardest hit, and that there might be a significant economic boost. 

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