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Disillusioned Iraqi Refugees Leave Germany And Head Home

Kerry Picket Political Reporter
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Iraqi refugees want out of Germany and are leaving the country on one-way flights back to their homeland, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Refugees reportedly are frustrated with Germany’s heavy bureaucracy as well as the overcrowded refugee centers, unemployment, unfamiliar food, homesickness and resentment from native Germans.

The L.A. Times notes that many of the refugees are willing to go back to their country where ISIS ravages violence among the population and poverty is a fact of life.

“I wanted to live in peace with my family as far away from war as possible,” said Abdulla, a 37-year-old who had worked as a truck driver in Iraq. “But what I’ve seen in Europe is not what I dreamed about. It’s not what [the smugglers] told me it would be,” one Iraqi refugee told The L.A. Times.

The Iraqi embassy issued in Berlin issued over 1,5000 one way tickets to Iraqi refugees in the past three months. Smugglers often tell the refugees that big houses and jobs as well as money awaits them in European countries like Germany.

“We came here to Germany to live free but we’re not free here,” one refugee said before he left. “We’ve got more freedom at home in Iraq than here…. I’m tired of being treated like an animal, of living in a giant room with hundreds of others and getting horrible food and having to take cold showers. I can’t wait to get home.”

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