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These tragic ebbs and flows of people are usually ignored by the rest of the world until they become highly visible, as they did in 2015-16 when hundreds of thousands of people poured into the Balkans heading for central Europe or whenI had a telling experience of the mass exodus from the Middle East a few years earlier which taught me how difficult it is to stop despairing people who believe that they must risk everything to start a new life in another country.
When he returned to the capital, he found that his house had been occupied by a Shia family which had falsely accused him of being a former member of Saddam Hussein’s secret police. Neighbours told him to get out of the district quickly before he was killed. It became too dangerous for him to work as a taxi driver outside the few Sunni districts, which had become islands of fear.Bassim decided to flee to Sweden, though he only spoke Arabic and had no skills aside from driving a car.
Much of British immigration policy is as fake as poor Bassim’s Lithuanian passport, its aim being to make a show of activity and wrong-foot political opponents. Draconian measures will be near impossible to put into effect, especially by ministers of limited ability who change their jobs every few months.
as leaders who had started wars, one against Ukraine in 2022 and the other against Yemen in 2015, in which they expected to win a swift victory. Both men were disappointed and their wars are still going on.
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