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Poland, U.S. States Oppose Refugee Resettlement After Attacks

HeadlineNov 16, 2015

Authorities also said one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up outside the national stadium in Paris was carrying a Syrian passport and his fingerprints matched someone who passed through Greece in October. In response to the attacks, Poland’s incoming European affairs minister said Poland now cannot accept refugees under an EU plan, while in the United States the governors of Alabama and Michigan also refused to resettle any Syrian refugees. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Syrian refugees fleeing from ISIL should not be confused with the Paris attackers.

Jean-Claude Juncker: “We should not mix the different categories of people coming to Europe. The one who is responsible for the attacks in Paris cannot be put at equal foot with real refugees, with asylum seekers and with displaced people. He’s a criminal and not a refugee and not an asylum seeker.”

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