Dad fears 10-year-old daughter with rare disease will die if family must return to Iraq
Updated May 05, 2021;
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KALAMAZOO, MI Without funds needed to pay back the Iraqi government, Erfan Kareem fears his 10-year-old daughter, Lumar Jalil, will be forced to go back to the country, and she will die.
Lumar is a “sweet and spunky 10-year-old girl” who was born in Iraq, her father said in an interview with MLive on May 4. When she was a toddler, her family came to the United States so that her father could go to college, under an agreement that they would return to Iraq after he graduated, Kareem said.