As pope urges open doors, migrants face closures around the world | Crux Now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : For instance, at least five migrants died this week after being deported from the European Union by Polish border troops, close to the border with Belarus, where men and women are stranded in a forest, surviving freezing nightly temperatures with little to no material support.
37% : EU members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have each declared a state of emergency amid a surge of thousands of people trying to cross their borders from Belarus, with the European Union accusing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a weapon, abandoning them at the border.
21% : For several years now the crisis in Venezuela has been labeled by the United Nations as the worst in the world without being a war-zone, and there are more people who've fled this Latin American nation than refugees and internally displaced people in Syria, which has been consumed by conflict for close to a decade.

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