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The Evian Conference in 1938 consisted of 32 countries attempting to solve the Jewish refugee conflict. However, no countries agreed to accept the refugees except the Dominican Republic.
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) European Jews aboard the St. Louis traveling back to Belgium in 1939 after being rejected into the United States and Cuba.
(Times of Israel) "There is no future, if they are forced to remain where they are." Nicholas Winton Jewish scientists, historians, and teachers, such as Edward Teller, were striped of their positions and forced to leave their countries in order to continue their academic careers.
(Atomic Heritage Foundation) Jews behind barbed wires at concentration camps destined to die as a result of no country offering to accept Jewish refugees.
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The current administration's travel ban prevents any refugees from Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, and Somalia from entering the United States.
(CNN) Syrian refugees must survive on boats and rafts to travel to different locations seeking a place to live. They are continuously being rejected by the governments of the countries they are attempting to settle in.
(US News) US born NASA scientist, Sidd Bikkannavar, is detained at the US boarder until he would unlock his phone. It is suspected that he was detained because of the origin of his name. This is the result of the U.S. travel ban against most Muslim countries.
(The Verge) Thousands of Syrian refugees behind barbed wires at borders await to find out if they will be accepted into another country.
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