A **refugee**, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.
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Victims of the earthquakes are not “refugees”, in this sense. They also likely stand no chance of getting an asylum granted. These are people are migrants. They have lost their homes and face a difficult future, but Greece is right in defending its border from tresspassing.
*A* ***refugee****, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.*
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Victims of the earthquakes are not “refugees”, in this sense. They also likely stand no chance of getting an asylum granted. These are people are migrants. They have lost their homes and face a difficult future, but Greece is right in defending its border from tresspassing.
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The decision to fortify the border was made long before the earthquakes. I’m talking months before.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee)
A **refugee**, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.
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Victims of the earthquakes are not “refugees”, in this sense. They also likely stand no chance of getting an asylum granted. These are people are migrants. They have lost their homes and face a difficult future, but Greece is right in defending its border from tresspassing.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee)
*A* ***refugee****, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution.*
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Victims of the earthquakes are not “refugees”, in this sense. They also likely stand no chance of getting an asylum granted. These are people are migrants. They have lost their homes and face a difficult future, but Greece is right in defending its border from tresspassing.