“Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisors,” Power said in her prepared remarks, noting that 31 U.S. governors reacted to the terrorist attacks in Paris, France last year by refusing to resettle Syrian refugees in their states. “Yet that is what is driving the ill-informed and biased reactions we have seen to these and other attacks from some in our country.”
More than 65.3 million people were displaced from their homes as of last year due to conflict, persecution, or political and economic insecurity.
Power’s speech — which also previewed President Obama’s plan for the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees in September — dispelled several common myths about refugees and the supposed threat they pose to their host countries:...
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/06/30/3794232/amb-samantha-power-refugee-myths/
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