Posted on 03/07/2016 12:20:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Surkaw Omar and Rebien Abdullah quit their jobs and spent their life savings to migrate to Europe, only to find crowded asylum camps, hunger and freezing weather. Now back home in northern Iraq, they describe their quest for a better life as a disaster.
Many of the hundreds of thousands of people heading to Europe have no choice but to brave such hardships because they are refugees from places gripped by war, where their lives are in danger. But Omar and Abdullah come from Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, which has been largely spared from fighting with the Islamic State group.
They each spent some $8,000 on the trip, much of it on smugglers, only to get stuck in asylum-seekers’ camps in Germany and Sweden for months on end, where they say they were given very little food or money.
“It was very bad,” Omar, 25, said of the German camp. “Honestly, we were starving there. We ran away because of hunger. They gave us only cheese and tea, and our weekly allowance was 30 euros.”
They decided to try their luck in Sweden instead, but that didn’t work either.
“When we arrived there, it was winter. It was freezing. They put me in a room with three Syrians. I couldn’t speak Arabic and they couldn’t speak Kurdish. We were communicating like deaf people,” Omar said. After trying Germany one more time, they gave up.
“We said to each other, let’s go home. It’s better than anywhere else,” he said.
They are among what experts say is a growing number of migrants who are returning home because of the difficulty of finding housing and employment in Europe.
Some 70,000 Iraqis joined the tide of refugees and migrants seeking a better life in Europe last year,
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Lets hope its the beginning of a worldwide craze.
My heart bleeds.
Angela Merkel starves people?
You know how those Germans are.
They all need to go back home and fight for country...
Despite what the utopia liberals would have you believe, the reality is that a nation (any nation) can only absorb a finite amount of refugees. There is only so much housing and only so many jobs.
spread the word, boys.
Huh??? They had jobs and money saved? How in the hell does that qualify them as REFUGEES?????
“...difficulty finding housing and employment...”
That’s because there just isn’t enough free Sh!t to go around.
Why would they give them money? Why would they expect money? I am no grand historian but I thought immigrants to the US (previous to the current era) were not given money.
Too bad about the cheese and tea. If I had been in charge, it would be bacon and eggs for breakfast, a pig roast for lunch, pork chops for dinner with wine from Israel.
Go back to your headchoppers’ paradise and leave our women alone!
Nobody wants you.
Nobody needs you.
Nobody loves you.
Go home.
NOW!
Or starve and freeze to death. Nobody cares.
[Also, up all yours twice, just because I have the floor.]
If you import too many you’ll end up making refugees of your own people.
“The Camp of the Saints” is a great novel dramatizing exactly that.
and the women said we smelled bad.
We must all hope they have a better life back where they come from.
Awwww. The plague rats didn’t feel welcome? Send’em all home-in sealed crates.
Lol, and as they’re leaving through customs a huge Jumbotron with Powers Booth saying, “Well...BYE!” In an endless loop.
They all need to go back home and fight for country...”
That’s right. Here in America we fought to have a country and for that matter we fought for France, Germany and England to have a country.
These illegal immigrants all seem to think that they should be able to easily profit from the hard-earned work and bloodshed of Americans with no cost to themselves.
It would be sweet to have a webcam online so we all could see that!
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