were good welders and good with stone and good with construction they brought an added value to our country. we had to have a group called the knights of columbus, created in this country in new haven, connecticut, to defend and protect the rights of mostly irish and italian immigrants in the lerl i 20th century. you re right. what can we learn today. you say a lot of this comes from the post 1980s cuban boat people. explain. one thing to distinguish is that immigration and refugees are different. we have immigration policies that go back to before the country was even born. the refugee policies we have really a function of the refugee act of 1980. recognizing that there were people that were in dangerous situations, and we were going to welcome them. did any of those groups at the time, kenneth, threaten us or come from groups that wished us ill? i would say that probably the best case you would make
do our refugee policies have to become more sensible? more sane? yes, in a sense. we have to differentiate between legitimate refugees such as the christians and other minorities being driven out and slaughtered and driven out by islamic state. and young islamic males of military age who should be fighting for their own countries, the united states, martha, i ve heard a lot of people saying, conservatives, saying how do we sort them out? how do we know what we re getting? it s a pretty safe bet that if you re taking in christian refugees in the middle east, they re not going to be islamist terrorists. the problems go so deep that there s no easy solution, but i will tell you, if we do not get serious about fighting radical islam, carrying it out by the roots, killing them in the middle east, we will continue to lose because the increase in sophistication between the charlie hebdo attacks that happened a year ago staged by al qaeda and this very complex attack by islamic state, this i
to get them across. in france, the country s prime minister, interior minister and eu commissioner will visit the port city of call lay and the euro tunnel in the coming hours. the city has seen a spike in the number of migrants trying to access the tunnel to get to the uk. several migrants have died in their attempt. thousands more are camped out in the port. france s morforeign minister is criticizing the scandalous refugee policies. translator: with regard to those who are chased out of their countries we have to be able to welcome them. it s a plea for asylum. france, germany and others have but when i see certain european countries that do not accept these groups i found that scandalous. eu ministers will meet on september 14th to try to find a
chancellor said she was optimistic conservatives were holding the exploratory talks with the center left social democrats all to previous negotiations with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to include germany s refugee policies and its approach to european integration. and listen to what merkel and the social democrat leader martin shots had to say as those talks got underway if you get the news because the c.d.u. is going into these talks with the aim of creating the conditions to form a stable government. that s because we believe that the tasks ahead for which we have the voters mandate are enormous in terms of foreign policy challenges european challenges and also in domestic affairs. we all sensed that the challenges for a new federal government however it may be structured lie in that the new year and which we all live must also include a new kind of politics in this sense we will conduct the negotiations here
the talks began but there s still plenty of room for discord with her potential partners the social democrats who look at the latest from our correspondent also coming out. harris remembers the victims of the attacks three years ago that horrified the world the killings began when government stormed the offices of the satirical magazine charlie abdo. i m still hammering good to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel has been leaving key talks about forming a new coalition government going into the negotiations the talks less that she was optimistic to serve the divs are holding the exploratory talks with the center left social democrats after previous negotiations with other parties failed sticking points this time around are expected to include germany s refugee policies and its approach to european integration. have