Annette Groth, a member of the German Parliament, recently returned from a trip to Hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. “What is the root for this massive migration?” Groth asks. “It is war, it is terror, and it is the former U.S. government who is accountable for it.”

Speaking to “Democracy Now!” from Stuttgart, Germany, Groth outlines the ways in which Western governments are to blame for the crisis.

–Posted by Roisin Davis

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