echidna
those who you would call "haters" in these on-going debates are those who love Australia and who resent and oppose those who are forcing themselves on us all. We didnt ask you lot to run here. Dont talk to me about people who will run anywhere with their families to flee imprisonment torture or even daeth. There are camps in Africa where there are many more than you lot who have the $15, 000 to cough up to the people smuggling industry. These Africans are much, MUCH worse off that you lot and have been through wqorse than you will ever.They are waiting patiently to be invited to Australia. There is a waiting list. We take only a limited amoumt which is reduced when we have to take you illegals into the country because you have forced yourselves onto us. The difference is that we willingly and lovingly want the Africans who are going through the legal processes and not jumping the queue. We would much rather have them than put up with you lot.Dont talk rubbish and say there is no queue in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Smart-assing wont got you a hell of a lot,pal.

We just want the real,genuine and thoroughly legal victims. We cant help stop wondering why you lot dont go to the many affluent Islamic countries closer to the scene of your tragedy. Why come all this way to Australia? You arent welcome here.

socratease

The question was:
"If asylum seekers are fleeing based on fear of persecution, do we have an obligation to offer them refuge as the first country they get to?"
Ours is not the first country they get to.
Hence, they're economy shoppers, not asylum seekers.
The message has got out that our welfare system will support them and their multiple wives and children for the rest of their lives.
Registered bleeding hearts should pay a special tax to make them feel warm and fuzzy about supporting "asylum seekers".
Haters and racists should be exempt from these taxes.
I wonder how long they would feel warm and fuzzy if they thought it was personally costing them money?

Last week it was either in USA or the UK that authorities discovered that a Muslim woman was found to be claiming a single parent's social benefits and child allowances for her 4 children. What was so wrong about that. She deserves compassion and is entitled to help,you say. But that wasnt the entire story. It was subsequently discovered that there were three other women each with four children and each was claiming single parent soicial benefits and child allowances. So what, they say.
All thre were found to be wives of the same husband who was on social benefits also and collecting from each wife/mother like a parasite.
Is this simply a mistake or a criminal case of fraud in a shameless parasitic existence that is endemic in ghettoes around the country?
No wonder they're breaking their necks to get to Australia!

socratease