With a one-way ticket home to Iraq in his hands and seven months' worth of frustration over intransigent German bureaucracy in his heart, Gazwan Abdulhasen Abdulla gave up on his dreams of a better life in Europe.
Homesick and eager to be back with his wife and four small children in Basra, Abdulla was giving up his refugee status as he boarded a crowded Iraqi Airways flight from Berlin's Tegel Airport to Baghdad that would whisk him and 150 other disillusioned former refugees back home in five hours.
He had scraped together his last $325 for the flight to Iraq — a small fraction of the money he had paid to smugglers last summer to get to Germany by foot, bus and boat through Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Austria.
But now, after more than 1.1 million refugees from troubled lands such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have trekked into Germany over the last 13 months, a small but growing number are heading home.
The reasons are myriad, but include overcrowded refugee centers, exasperating bureaucracy, unfamiliar German food, a lack of jobs and a spreading sense of resentment from Germans who fear their country is being overrun by Muslims.
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You know, there's a lot to be said for making life difficult for illegals. They come here illegally, so we don't owe them anything.
ReplyDeleteIf they can't find housing or a job they might just go back home.
That might be our only line of defense at this point. Make them VERY uncomfortable.
They mean intolerance of intolerance.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to make their lives difficult!!
ReplyDeleteWe need to do the same things here - 6:42 is spot on.
ReplyDeleteI'll be outside the local mosque eating a ham and cheese sandwich during prayers on a regular basis.
Screw the slimes!
Never happen here. Democrats will give them everything they need
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ReplyDeleteWe need to do the same things here - 6:42 is spot on.
I'll be outside the local mosque eating a ham and cheese sandwich during prayers on a regular basis.
Screw the slimes!
March 3, 2016 at 7:23 PM
That's exactly what I meant and you can do it with discretion without being labeled a racist. Just think about it.
6:42
My kids who live with their mother half the time have one of those families in that neighborhood and they hate those muslims. My kids are loved by everyone and get along with everyone and for some reason they don't like the Muslim family. BTW it is a very diverse neighborhood.
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