Bombs and Dollars – American Foreign Policy Blog – China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Egyptian well educated people, who don’ have any good jobs in their own country, due to recession, other than laborers or stuffs like that…are not satisfied with that. So they came out with a plan. They now pay smugglers, and take boats, to cross over to Europe, mainly through Libya. Now mostly they perish in the journey, or get caught, and jailed. Those who manage, to pass…gets jobs of mostly…err, as cheap laborers! That’s some plan, eh?

In fact, according to a recent study by the Earth Centre for Studies almost half a million (460,000) Egyptians have successfully entered Europe illegally in the last decade, and 90,000 live in Italy alone. – BBC World.

According to the report, some of the brightest…(and prettiest, as you’ll see) which amounts to almost 50%, who goes for post grads in the western Univs, never actually return to their home country.

The report gives the examples of Rasha Mohammad, a law graduate, who wants to work outside their country as she doesn’t see much opportunity in her own place, in the near future. The choices she has in mind, are two very similar countries, almost running neck to neck in social, educational, and technological advancement, namely Saudi Arabia, and London…

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