Last week I was very active on facebook, supporting the IB students in Sweden in their struggles to help a fellow IB classmate to stay in Sweden. Immad is from Afghanistan and he came to Sweden three years ago. He was justa a kid and all alone, because the Talibans killed his whole family. He started the IB program and got many friends and a good life in Sweden. Today the migration department decided to deport Immad and tomorrow he is flying back to Afghanistan. To stop this horrible act to happen, the girls protested by starting a facebook, made it possible to sign your name on a petition and demonstrated outside their local town hall. They even got a few politicians to join them, but to no avail! I helped by spreading the facebook posts to everyone I know and all are very upset about the decision to send Immad back to an most unclear future. How can a country who has a history of allowing people in need to come, deport an 18-year old IB student who is all alone in the world and only has a dangerous and uncertain life in his war torn homecountry? I'm ashamed of being Swedish right now!
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