Keep the Afghan refugees out
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Racists:
- French President Emmanuel Macron has said Europe must "protect itself" from an influx of Afghan migrants.
- Greece has completed a border fence with Turkey, in an effort to deter Afghan migrants.
- Turkey, which hosts millions of Syrian refugees, has also beefed up its own border security with walls, ditches and barbed wire in the wake of Kabul's fall to the Taliban.
- Australia has launched a campaign urging Afghans not to attempt to make the dangerous voyage to the country by sea. The country has pledged to take in just 3,000 Afghan refugees.
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https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/taliban-afghanistan
The Taliban, which has between fifty-eight thousand and one hundred thousand full-time fighters, is stronger now than at any point in the last twenty years.
https://www.newsweek.com/which-countries-taking-afghan-refugees-which-arent-1623182
There are already 2.6 million Afghans refugees in the world—a figure that's sure to rise significantly as the U.S. and other allies race to complete an evacuation of the country by the looming August 31 deadline.
58,000 - 100,000 Taliban
2,600,000 Refugees
pretty good leverage
