Ahmed, who worked with the U.S. Army in Iraq before he fled to the U.S. in 2012, said that although he believes the goal of the U.S. government was “the right goal for Iraq, the problem is that the people don’t want that goal.”
Now, the solution in Iraq must come from its people, he said. He believes he may, eventually, even think about returning home.
But now the United States is his country.
“I see here in the U.S. different cultures, different faces, different colors. But the people are the people, no matter what,” he said. “I’m not a citizen yet, but I don’t get treated differently than a citizen. When my son got sick, I took him to the hospital and got everything the same.”
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