The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many. Jordan has accepted in two days what the United States has received in an entire month during the height of this immigration flow-more than 9,000 children in May. Countries neighboring Syria have absorbed nearly 3 million people. Why would they start asking Central American children key questions needed to prove refugee status? The United States expects other countries to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees on humanitarian grounds. The total number of horses shipped to India from this port and the others I have mentioned is past all reckoning.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." This would allow life-or-death decisions to be made within hours by Homeland Security officials, even though studies have shown that border patrol agents fail to adequately screen Mexican children to see if they are being sexually exploited by traffickers or fear persecution, as the agents are supposed to do. Many fine war horses are exported from here to India, to the great gain of the merchants. They find a ready market here for their wares, since it is a centre from which spices and other goods are carried to various inland cities and towns. This city has a very good port, much frequented by merchant ships from India. No corn is grown here, but it is imported by sea from other places. They are subject to Hormuz and whenever the malik of Hormuz is at war with neighbors more powerful than himself, he comes to this city, because it is strongly built and situated, so that here he is afraid of no one. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. It is a fine city on the sea-coast 600 miles north-west of Dhofar. Kalhat is a large city lying inside the gulf which is also Kalhat. Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Which details from the text best support the author's purpose to inform the reader that the islands are amazing to him? Select three options. But I feel sure from the monstrous size they attribute to the birds that they cannot be anything but gryphons. To return for a moment to the gryphon birds, I should explain that the islanders call them rukhs and know them by no other name and have no idea what a gryphon is. Altogether their beasts and birds are so different from ours that it is a marvel to hear tell of them and a greater marvel to behold them. There are also giraffes in plenty, and wild asses too. Indeed they declare that some of these boars are as big as buffaloes. You may infer for yourselves what must have been the size of the boar that had such tusks as this. He had one of them weighed and found that its weight was 14 lb. I assure you that they brought back with them the tusks of a wild boar of monstrous size. And these later emissaries, and the other who had been held captive, had much to tell him of the marvels of these strange islands. Now that I have given you this second-hand account of the gryphon bird, let me add that the Great Khan sent special emissaries here to learn about these islands, and again to treat for the release of a previous emissary who had been detained as a captive.
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