Good article. i suspect the same sort of racism and judicial inconsistencies exist in Australia.

'Good article. i suspect the same sort of racism and judicial inconsistencies exist in Australia.'

Certainly is especially if an uncle or cousin rapes a young girl and cultural reasons sees them go free.

Good article, we need more like this.
I am sure migranrs, minorities have huge problems in any country of the world but mass media ignore migrant's victimization, or they try to hide the victimization.
I remember 5-6 years before, in Adelaide, on the front page of the local newspaper it was a photo of two young men who attacked an other young man for no reason, as he was walking in a park.
They stoped kicking him only when they thought he was dead!
There was no victim's photo, no photo of any member of his family!
Reading the article, I found from his name that he was a muslim and from his surname that he was an asian.
THE VICTIM WAS AN ASIAN MUSLIM!
I think the newspaper did not put victim's photo on purpose!
If we knew that he was an asian muslim we will think that probably there was a racist or religious attack.
While the mass media write big stories for the victims when they are white they do not write anything, EVEN THEY DO NOT PUT A PHOTO WHEN THE VICTIMS ARE NOT WHITE!

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

This is likely to be more about footballers and the way they are seen as local heroes, especially in small communities, than about racism. In the Jena 6 incident in the US in 2007, 6 black high school footballers got off very lightly after giving a savage beating to a white student. A number of them had previous records of bad behaviour that had been essentially condoned. No one wants to be unpopular in their community by taking a star footballer out of circulation. Bad behaviour by footballers is not unknown in Australia either.

There is no excuse for what the young thugs did in this case, but ascribing resentment of illegal immigrants to groundless bigotry ignores some of the facts of life in a country where the elite are refusing to enforce the immigration laws at the expense of ordinary people. Ordinary American citizens and legal immigrants have good reasons for disliking illegal immigration. The illegal immigrants cost far more in public services than they ever pay in taxes, which the rich people who benefit from the presence of the illegals are very adept at evading. See this update on a 1994 report that the economist Philip J. Romero (now at the University of Oregon) did for the then governor of California.

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_17_4/tsc_17_4_romero.shtml

"Illegal immigrants draw resources away from needed programs for legal residents, and suppress economic growth because of the need to inflate taxes to cover the costs of their mandated services."

They also depress wages among legal residents, as Prof. George Borjas of Harvard has extensively demonstrated

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/Papers/cis504.pdf