Legal, illegal!

So many of us resent the illegal and do not mind the legal.

Our gates are not only open, but red carpeted for anyone who has money. There is a Law; it is called Business Migration Legislation, by which, who can show the money is welcomed in.

Do you hate people because they are poor and dispossessed of rights and risk their life to come to Australia?

I was a migrant, fifty-seven years ago. The Australian Government recruited me not because I had money but because I had muscles and stupidity.

They wanted the Snowy, and they needed laborers and they wanted them single.

I do not vote because I do not wish to give my power to those charlatans who tricked me to a country full of bigots like you.

Ah wonderful, so they all trip over to Christmas Island, all
expenses paid, plus a great wage I am sure, to express
their opinions.

So how much in total, did this little jaunt cost the rest
of us humble taxpayers?

Perhaps the Commissionar should address the fact that the
UN 1951 Convention is 60 years out of date and needs changing,
so that its not misused by economic migrants.

For in that case the real refugees, stuck in refugee camps
around the world, are missing out.

Oops, they of course, would not come under the durestriction
of this commission, for they are outside of Australia.

So the elephant in the room is not addressed, whilst the
Human Rights Commission, at great expense to taxpayers,
shakes its proverbial finger at us.

What a life they lead, on the Govt payroll!

The rest of us just keep paying taxes.

I'm in the USA, not too far from the Mexican border.
Australia has nothing, absolutely nothing to complain about with the handful of people seeking asylum there.

I find it hard to believe how rude and ignorant some of the responses are on this topic.

Be glad we have so few asylum seekers compared to the numbers in the US and Europe.
We can easily manage to give them the assistance they need.

How selfish some Australians sound from this distance. We are a world citizen, we don't exist in a vacuum.We can afford to be generous to others in need.

Our mandatory detention position is an international disgrace.

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I've just deleted a comment on this thread, and I've been tempted to delete more. The standard has been pretty low. If you can't do more than sneer, then perhaps you ought to think about not posting at all.

If you come here looking for conversation then you will understand what I am saying, and if you come here looking for a fight, then perhaps you should find another site.

Let me try that again ..

briar, those responses, regardless of how rude and ignorant you find them, are Australians expressing their opinions. Many people find your views equally distasteful.

Not sure where you get the "world citizen" idea and that there are responsibilities attached to that, sounds like UN stuff that is pumped out for wallpapering. Seems to me very few of the nations in the UN have a "world citizen" view in their own countries.

"Our mandatory detention position is an international disgrace.", I agree, it should be much harsher, and offshore somewhere like Nauru.

A detention center should be a deterrent, as the Howard government temporary visa were.

we should not be making holiday camp type accommodations for people.

A lot of Australians are very irritated that "illegal immigrants" get better treatment than many Australians. I say "illegal immigrants" to differentiate from other immigrants - we all know exactly who we mean when we say that, it is the uninvited boat arrivals. It is now part of the Australian vernacular, whether it should be or not is a separate argument.

Why should we be glad we have so "few" arrivals by boat? Zero is what we prefer, whether the US or anywhere else has mishandled their policies is not reason for Australia to soften our stance.

Many Australians see this as the have nots, who have trashed their own countries then all shopping internationally for somewhere better, they most often have not learned from their experiences and seem to want to do it all again here. how many bring their battles and conflicts with them?

If they genuinely wanted to join our society, fine .. but our experience is that they want to embed their own (often failed, or faulty) culture here.