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Paramount
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Wed Nov 10 16:47:36
Everyone knows that Europe sucks. Ask the Americans. The US is the land of the free, where you can find work, be successful and live the dream. So the entire Middle East should go there instead if their lives in their home countries suck.



Despite dangers, many Iraqi Kurds dream of reaching Europe

"Our life is awful," says Iraqi taxi driver Himen Gabriel, who no longer believes he has a future in his war-battered country and says he is about to try to reach Europe.

He won't say whether he will try to enter the EU across the Belarus-Poland border like thousands of others, but is determined to leave his home in Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region.

Sporting a long, black beard and a fashionable haircut, Himen, 28, says he has no professional prospects, blaming local systems of patronage and nepotism.

He pointed to his four brothers, saying "all have degrees and none has found a job in the public sector because they do not belong to any political party".

He prefers not to say whether his travel itinerary will include Belarus where up to 4,000 migrants, many of them Kurds, now huddle in improvised camps in freezing weather.

As troops mass on both sides of the border, Poland has accused Russia of orchestrating a wave of migrants trying to illegally enter in a bid to destabilise the European Union.

One Iraqi man now in Belarus, who asked not to be named, told AFP by telephone that he and his family had made it all the way to the razor wire fence at the Polish border.

When they arrived, he said their group was confronted by "Polish soldiers" on the other side. "We tried to cross," he said, "but the soldiers fired tear gas to force us back."

Now back in the capital Minsk, he said he remained in contact with relatives living inside the European Union, eager to find another way to enter and cross to Germany.

Gabriel, the taxi driver, remains convinced that even an arduous and dangerous journey is worth it, given the prospect of "leading a quiet life" in Europe.

http://afp...am-of-reaching-europe/a/z79xv1
murder
Member
Wed Nov 10 16:52:55

Because you're closer than the US is.

Sam Adams
Member
Thu Nov 11 13:51:17
"Why does everyone want to come to EU?"

Because you give them free shit.
Rugian
Member
Thu Nov 11 13:51:53
^this
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