The top story on Sunday night’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” was all about the European migrant crisis.
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Oliver skewered specific country’s policies toward immigrants, such as Slovakia, which only will give asylum to Christians because “they haven’t got any mosques”. The Fox News reporter said “those are reportedly Muslim refugees” and then goes on to say “to be clear, we’re not saying any of those people are terrorists or in any way affiliated with a terror group, but it does highlight just how many of these refugees who are fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria are Muslim”.
“Here in the United States, some in the media have chosen to reduce the migrant population to one single stereotype”, he adds, before showing a Fox News clip featuring the misleading caption, “Terrorists Inbound?”
John Oliver is here to call them all out, and to highlight the story of one young wheelchair-bound Syrian refugee, who is literally all of us: her biggest worry, in a bittersweet twist of events, turns out to be the breakup of her favorite TV romance.
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The BBC’s Fergal Keane asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said an astronaut because she wanted to encounter an alien (and she also happens to want to meet Queen Elizabeth). Others are just delaying the application process for refugees, in some cases, by several years. And in one truly disgusting display of heartlessness, a Hungarian camerawoman was caught kicking and tripping refugees trying to flee police at a checkpoint. “It can do it for selfish ones because as a continent it is in dire need of new citizens”. The host then reunited the series’ beloved Days of Our Lives characters EJ and Sami – played by Alison Sweeney and James Scott – as a small gesture for Mustafa, and to help outline the current crisis.
