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This is alJazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tens of thousands of refugees looking to start over in europe have more options this morning. Germany announced it has the ability to take in half a million Asylum Seekers each year for several years to come. Germany expects to receive 800,000 people this year alone. That is four times higher than its 2014 total. Germany has been insisting other european nations take in their fair share of refugees, as well. We are live in vienna, where thousands of refugees have been arriving. Weve seen you on the train, at...

Operations. But even though were doing more than weve ever done before, its not enough relative to the need. Contributions are urgently needed. The second prong of our response is diplomacy on humanitarian issues. For several years, we have engaged government officials in the region to encourage them to keep borders open, allow refugees to enter their countries, authorize the work of leading humanitarian organizations, and allow refugees to pursue normal life, as normal as possible given what they have been through. We are part of a chorus of nations that call for the respect of humanitarian p...

Have been suffering from fatigue. I felt in the last year or two that their contributions while increasing were not keeping pace with the needed increases. Certainly europe now is very focused on needing to provide more assistance to help the refugees who are in the middle east and are displaced inside syria and also refugees in the surrounding neighboring countries. Then for a couple of years now we have been trying to encourage gulf states to become routine regular donors to and through United Nations appeals. And i would say weve had mixed success on this. We have seen some very large gener...

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One of the appointees, professor bill hing and thank him for mentoring generations of immigration and immigrant rights lawyers like myself and Asian American leaders as well from founding of the immigrant Legal Resource Center to many other organizations and really giving advice to so many of the various justice struggles within immigrant communities. I wanted to thank him and say its an honor to have him serve on our immigrants rights for our city. Thank you. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. I, too, wanted to single out one person, leah chen price. Shes a native San Francisco an. Im gla...