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Young Afghan migrant explains why he wants to head to UK and not claim asylum in France
Daily Express ^ | Sep 13 | Story by Robert Kellaway in Calais

Posted on 09/12/2023 9:48:54 PM PDT by RandFan

A young migrant has told of his unshakeable determination to cross the English Channel after walking for two years from his home in Afghanistan to Calais.

Amin Khan, 20, spoke to the Daily Express at the "Afghan jungle" a rudimentary camp on waste ground close to the town's general hospital.

The site is home to many different "jungles", camps of naturally segregated ethnic groups living apart to reduce the risk of violent clashes.

Khan has been in Calais for a month and is penniless but hopes to grab a free ride on a migrant boat heading for the UK, at the risk of a beating from smugglers if he is discovered.

He succeeded in getting aboard a boat three weeks ago but it sank just offshore. He was rescued by French authorities who returned him to the coast.

Khan left his home in Kunar, Afghanistan in August 2021 after the Taliban regained control of the country.

Due to a dispute with his family, the Taliban kidnapped Khan's uncle and burned his business to the ground.

Khan was their next target:" I just disappeared. My parents do not hear from me but they can hope that I am alive. If the Taliban take me they will know that I am dead."

He said: "If I go home to Afghanistan I lose my life.

"If I claim asylum in France they will deport me to Bulgaria which is the first country I entered the EU. They will tell me to claim asylum there.

"Bulgaria does not want any migrants in the country. They will refuse me asylum and the police will beat me and any other migrant they see, to force us to leave.

"In the UK I will be given papers more easily than in Europe."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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So he's trying to hitch a free ride? Interesting.
1 posted on 09/12/2023 9:48:54 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He should go back and fight the Taliban if he hates them so much.


2 posted on 09/12/2023 9:51:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

Just come to USA. Biden has the border wide open.
He will get free hotel, free food, and any other help he needs. Biden is a generous man with tax payer money.


3 posted on 09/12/2023 9:54:31 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: RandFan

“He’s trying to hitch a free ride.”

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And then bitch, moan and complain how horrible and evil Western culture is and then use that as justification to rape young girls and commit crimes in the UK.


4 posted on 09/12/2023 9:55:37 PM PDT by Murder of Crows
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To: Murder of Crows

Cultural enrichment....


5 posted on 09/12/2023 9:59:26 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: entropy12

and-————eventually, he will. (find his “free ride”)


6 posted on 09/12/2023 10:04:55 PM PDT by Segovia
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To: RandFan
I'm sure that Great Britain can stand another ten or twenty million refugees - with cultural values antithetical to hers, with next to no schooling, with shady pasts - washing up on her shores.

"Piece of cake!"

Extending an invitation to these droves of shady characters will not dilute the English culture, will not endanger the safety of British citizens, will not strain the public treasury.

Regards,

7 posted on 09/12/2023 10:06:50 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: RandFan
after walking for two years from his home in Afghanistan to Calais.

Did the journalist verity that claim?

8 posted on 09/12/2023 10:08:29 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: alexander_busek

You raise a good point.

It’s just not sustainable in terms of development: schools, housing, public services etc.

Everything at breaking point.

You can’t increase the population with no civic type planning?

It’s nuts.

Eventually frustrations will boil over...


9 posted on 09/12/2023 10:10:35 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: alexander_busek

The things you think are bugs, are actually features.

Everything you think is a problem is an intended consequence.


10 posted on 09/13/2023 12:33:16 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: alexander_busek

I think the root cause of this is woke/leftist/international socialistic dogma has taken over the leadership classes of the West.

All that matters is the state as individualism not only isn’t relevant it doesn’t exist. So all cultures are the same, all people’s are the same, no government is better than any other (except those that dont want to belong to this “New World Order”). They disbelieve that some people’s have different educational levels and inherent IQ averages, crime rates , understanding of Western Values whatever.


11 posted on 09/13/2023 2:47:55 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: RandFan

It seems to be a local business dispute. Afghanistan is about the size of California.

Memorize passages of the Koran about mercy, forgiveness and not harming innocents.


12 posted on 09/13/2023 2:57:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

At some point about half the population will go on a buying strike.


13 posted on 09/13/2023 3:10:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: dfwgator

well, bluntly, that’s a close to hopeless task — the Talibs are completely entrenched.

And, as long as they don’t bother the USA or their neighbors, no one is going to aid him with weapons or other means.

But, if he wants to migrate, he should convert from Islam and give up his mindset.


14 posted on 09/13/2023 3:58:40 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: alexander_busek
I'm sure that Great Britain can stand another ten or twenty million refugees...

And with a GDP per capita already lower than Mississippi's, what could possibly go wrong at this point?

15 posted on 09/13/2023 4:29:52 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything
And with a GDP per capita already lower than Mississippi's, what could possibly go wrong at this point?

Will soon also have a racial make-up similar to that of Mississippi's.

That's really when the sh#t will hit the fan.

Remember Thatcher's dictum: "... until other people's money runs out."

Regards,

16 posted on 09/13/2023 5:45:38 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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