"refugees who had undertaken a perilous journey to flee religious and political oppression"<p>Except for the part that they fled to the Netherlands first, then decided that Dutch culture was too libertine for them, and that their children were becoming too Dutch and not staying English.<p>This makes them, to use the modern terms, not refugees but economic migrants.<p>"There are reasons for this increase that we should try to address."<p>Like the effect of decades of US intervention to subvert local democracies in the interest of US corporations?<p>Or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Accusations_toward_the_School_of_the_Americas" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...</a> ?