Posted on 12/26/2005 8:25:42 AM PST by blueminnesota
These people see themselves as refugees, fleeing a country that offered little hope for a better life, and yet the law does not consider them refugees......
It is a legal distinction that infuriates Napoleon Robert, 26, a former economics students who fled his village in southern Sudan four years ago, hoping that Egypt would be a first stop on his way to refugee status and then relocation to the West.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
BTTT
I didn't get past the part where he was studying economics in a village in southern Sudan.
Sitting in a dirt-floor hut and perusing a 30-year old, used Economics textbook from the local market is probably considered "studying" there. But seriously, why do these Sudanese "refugees" think they deserve first class tickets to a European or American welfare office? Why are they better than the fifty million or so Egyptians? They should be happy they got away from the war. Now pick up some damn tools and WORK like the people around you. Sheesh.
Why don't they go back and fix up their hellhole countries? Instead of trying to turn the West into a demonic hellhole.
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