KASSEL, Germany — Somali asylum seeker Ismail Mohamed Hassan, 22, awoke one nippy morning to an early knock at his refugee center door. It was the state police bearing two unpleasant gifts — a one-way ticket out of Germany and a car ride to Frankfurt Airport. This was it, he recalls thinking. Deportation.
Unless he could find a way to stop it.
Germany is ground zero in Europe’s migrant crisis, a nation set to receive up to 1 million asylum seekers this year, far more than any other country in the region. Yet, like Hassan, after risking their lives by land and sea to reach the continent’s economic powerhouse, about one in every two asylum seekers is initially rejected. It has made asylum a numbers game. In Germany, 86 percent of Syrians are being granted some form of refugee status, as are 82 percent of Iraqis and 80 percent of Eritreans. Only 30 percent of Afghans are making the cut. For those coming from Kosovo and Albania, the acceptance rate stands at almost zero.
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In other words, non-Muslims and "whites" from Kosovo and Albania need not apply.
“But Europe needs to understand that Somalia has problems, too,” Muhdallib said.
Understanding they have "problems" should not equate to allowing the whole country to pack up and bring their problems there. Somalia needs to solve their own problems. And Somalians need to stay in Africa where they belong.
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