http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/29/botched-interventions-then-refugee-crises-now/XvPgwpQlmBy2YRb7OCNYYK/story.html

Today’s refugee crisis is the price for yesterday’s interventions

By Stephen Kinzer – BOSTON GLOBE - AUGUST 30, 2015

REFUGEES ARE SURGING into Europe. More have come since the beginning of this year than in all of 2014. Scenes of their plight are as relentless as they are poignant. This is Europe’s new crisis.

Immigration has also become a hot political issue in the United States, where an estimated 11 million people live without legal status. As the presidential campaign heats up, candidates win votes by promising to deport as many as possible, and then seal the border to keep them out. This same impulse has led to the rise of anti-immigrant parties in European countries. On both sides of the Atlantic, passionate debate over immigration is shaking politics and society. http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/29/botched-interventions-then-refugee-crises-now/XvPgwpQlmBy2YRb7OCNYYK/story.html