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Well, this is just devastating. Two other details stand out in this incredible NYT magazine story about asylum-seekers braving horrific conditions to escape from their homes in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere to try for a good life in Australia.
1. Writer Luke Mogelson describes that one way to measure the success of the US-led war in Afghanistan is by the current exodus of citizens from the country, pointing out “the first “boat people” to seek asylum in Australia were Vietnamese, in the mid-1970s, driven to the ocean by the fallout from that American withdrawal.” So there’s another unintended consequence of another war in the name of freedom and liberty. Nice one.
2. The detail of an Iranian father who is hesitant to destroy his son’s passport just about finished me off. "When the scissors came his way, he carefully cut out the photo on the first page and slipped it in his wallet.“ Damn.
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