Street Spain: Refugees and Banner Reading

street spain: They marched along the city's Gran Via street, according to Metro News. Spain has taken in less than 10 per cent of the refugees it had pledged to accept by last September. Braving temperatures that reached 40 degrees Celsius 104 degrees Fahrenheit several thousand marchers followed a huge banner reading We Want To Welcome Them Now! Enough Excuses, No More Barriers. It has relocated or resettled 1,304 refugees, while it promised in September 2015 to take in 17,337 people 15,888 from camps in Italy and Greece and 1,449 from Turkey and Libya. In February, at least 160,000 people marched in Barcelona to demand the Spanish government fulfil its commitment on refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.