Siblings separated and in danger of deportation

The two siblings from Afghanistan arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport early in the morning. Even though they had been waiting for this moment for three years, they were scared. In the weeks prior to their departure, they had frequently asked the social workers at the shelter where they were staying in Athens if perhaps they should stay in Greece instead, which, after countless difficulties, they had finally adjusted to. They were going to school and they had made friends.

The shelter staff knew that this was a completely expected reaction on the part of the children. In the Netherlands, however, they would be reunified with family, their aunt. They would have a real chance at a better life. So the staff tried to reassure them. "You will make friends there as well, you will continue going to school, everything will be OK," they told them. No one could have imagined how...