I see that Norway took about 14000 refugees last year,and similar the year before.Quite impressive for a country with barely five million people.
I dont understand why everyone gets hung up on boat people. If we are talking illegal immigrants, then most of the estimated 60,000 illegal immigrants in Australia are not asylum seekers hoping to be judged as refugees. Most illegal immigrants arrive by air and overstay their visas. They are generally tourists, students or people granted temporary-residence permits. They do not get much media attention and the Government does not appear to consider them a serious threat.
Maybe we should be worrying more about the tourists than the boat people.
Its not just Australia that is getting an influx of boat people, its happening to all the other countries as well.
We are complaining about 1,000, Europe is getting 35,000
I do feel for them as where are they to go?
You seem to have an intimate knowledge of Norwegians,their integrity ,character and worth.Where did you gain this information GG?They also gave ole smokin' Barack the Nobel Peace Prize, after he'd been in office for 9 weeks.
They are a nation of muppets.
So don't quote them on refugees mate. I wouldn't trust them to make me a highball, Cuba Libre, it would be full of jazmine.
gg
i know a lot of uk people who married here but never lived as husband and wifes, then divorced immediately after being granted citizenship..
i know indians and pakistanis who paid immigration officers 5k to get a visa to australia, then did the usual thing in getting a permanent place here..
some of the crime lords in illegal immigration are employees of the australian government. and some end up on a boat too long and turn the ship around and get the hell away from australia and panic big time when they are caught. as we see today...
these people travel illegally through many countries, and are very skilled at keeping all their cash away from the pirates and thieves and opportunists along the way..
are they persecuted and will they face persecution if they go back to their home country? imho the greater majority will not
imho the moment they leave their border then they are safe, so why travel so long and far to australia, all of asia beacons with opportunity, and all countries they pass through can easily deal with a few thousand illegal immigrants.. imho there are a lot of people claiming to be persecuted and in exile but may in fact not be at all but merely wanting opportunity here in australia.
imho economics are the attraction. ad its not poor and impoverished that arrive today like the Vietnamese runs we had years back, these immigrants are a new breed, have a lot of cash in hand and big bucks to turn over.. how they got hold of those sums is also never questioned!
Unauthorised arrivals, whether by sea or air, tend to be both personally courageous and entrepreneurial. Consequently, they invariably make first-class citizens when given the chance to become Australians. Often unauthorised arrivals, who successfully claim asylum status, adapt better than those who come under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-authorised annual refugee intake.
"So many young Afghan men are coming to this country on these boats while our young men, our best and finest young men, are in their country fighting the taliban."
This is an irony which has occurred to me too. Why should young Australians be fighting for a decent existence for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, when their own apparently healthy young men can't do likewise?Senator David Johnston, Opposition Defense Spokesman, made a valid point in parliament yesterday (reported on Lateline last night) when he said,
These "asylum seekers" say they come here looking for freedom, so it's about time we sent them back to their countries to fight for their freedom instead of allowing them to run away like cowards.
Surely there's a material difference between a trained, equipped and organised force and a group of individuals with no particular skills, training, equipment or leadership?These "asylum seekers" say they come here looking for freedom, so it's about time we sent them back to their countries to fight for their freedom instead of allowing them to run away like cowards.
Surely there's a material difference between a trained, equipped and organised force and a group of individuals with no particular skills, training, equipment or leadership?
When's the last time you fought for your freedom?
When's the last time you fought for your freedom?
No worries, let's build a big training centre in the Kimberleys.
The centre would be staffed by ex-managers of the FMF and PIF.
As all these 'refugees' come in, they should be shipped to the training camp and taught how to run managed funds by the ex-managers.
They could then be sent back (after a decent feed and some new clothes) to their native countries to make a fortune.
Yeah! Why can't we just have a Bottom of the Pacific Solution?Aren't they lucky we don't adopt the policy of playing 'bomb the boat'?
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