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In 1999 an Iraqi refugee fled to Australia and lived off their welfare system. Years later after he became successful, he walked into the local welfare office and tried to pay back every cent with an $18,000 check.

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In the famous *Casablanca* scene where French refugees defy the Nazis by singing their national anthem, many are played by actual refugees who had just fled the Nazis -- which is why many are visibly weeping as they sing

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1. Homer Plessy was born a "free person of color," as his parents were creoles refugees from Haiti who fled the violence of the revolution in that country and the persecution creoles often faced at the hands of the black majority.

2. On 4 November 1956. 180.000 Hungarian refugees fled to Austria, and 20.000 to Yugoslavia because of Soviet invasion of Budapest. They were accepted and resettled across Austria and Yugoslavia and some other countries.

3. Germany conquered France so quickly in 1940 that people fled leaving uneaten meals on tables, despite authorities stating that they should stay at home and not panic. Ten million refugees clogged roads, causing problems for the French military which had not planned for such a situation.

4. At least 20 Somali-American children of refugees in Minnesota have joined the jihad their parents allegedly fled

5. During the Dak Son Massacre of the Vietnam War, the Vietcong used flamethrowers to exterminate 114-252 random civilians in a village for feeding refugees who had fled their advance.

6. Canada has medical marijuana refugees. "There are cases of users of medical cannabis in the United States who, on being persecuted in their own country, have fled across the border to Canada, where they have sought asylum under the United Nations refugee convention."

7. Jerry Springer is the son of Jewish refugees who fled to England from Nazi-occupied Poland, and he was born in a London tube station while it was being used as a bomb shelter.