Keeping it dispassionate o sung wu.

It is as much an asylum issue as it is a border issue. Seeking asylum is not a criminal offence. The horrific conditions that many of these people are fleeing from are the consequence of an inability by regional governance to tackle organised crime. No short term big stick or open arms policy will resolve that issue. Unfortunately we live in an era where co-operation is seen as a weakness. These families need a safe haven. The States and Central America have to work out a solution together. Their attempts so far have failed. Just giving up will solve nothing. If anything it will make the situation far worse. The end result is that this insane defending of one nation's turf plays right into the hands of those gangs whose rampant turf wars are at the very heart of this problem.

//Now these care facilities aren't 5 star//

A terrific euphemism for locking kids in cages. You should be in PR or something.

They're still locking kids in cages though. I dunno, but to me that sounds like they're just running facilities because they've forgotten the part where they're supposed to care.

Sometimes I wonder if we're heading for a future where everybody forgets that we're supposed to care about kids being locked in cages :(

//But as we all know, that previous president wasn't criticised for that practice - something to do with his skin colour making it racist to criticise him.//

Mate, have you seen Trump's skin colour? If it's racist to criticise people of color, it's definitely racist to criticise Trump. The man is orange for heaven's sake. And he's definitely part of a minority group, because I've never seen another human being such a warm, vibrant shade of orange.

//Of course, all these problems with Toni's house being burgled and kid held in care could have been resolved if only Toni has built a wall around his house//

Funny how Chinese whispers works around here. I just asked runner if I could lock his kids in cage, a totally reasonable request. Next thing runner's got the little tykes breaking into my house, and now mhaze has the parents burgling me.

Thing is though that we're talking about Mexican immigrants here. They're not coming to burgle my house, they're coming to tend to my garden, look after my kids, clean my house and generally do all the shite jobs that the lazy self-indulgent millenials don't want to get their hands dirty with.

But what have the Romans ever done for us?

It must be hard work, being a Trump supporter, just as you throw every thing you can think of in defense of his latest insult to humanity, he changes his mind, and you have to do it again!The quite brilliant photo, SMH to day, front page of one of the worlds respected magazines, is telling, and promising, it shows some humans still care

What a load of crap.
I was locked up many yrs ago on unpaid fines as a teenager.
They picked me up on Friday night and took me to the old Southport watchhouse.
The large room they put me in was covered with urine and excrement, which they left me in (as well as others) till the next day when they finally moved us to clean it.
Finally Monday came.
About 11am an officer comes in to speak with me.

"We can see you were right now, the fines have actually already been paid some time back just like you said. You can go now."

I should've sued the bastards for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
Anyhow...

I muse over how badly the media distorts things and shows contempt for their readers.
Firstly this wasn't Trump's law.
It existed before he came to office, but Obozo supported the illegals.

The reason why Trump passed the new law, is because 80% of kids (mostly young adults not children) arrive unaccompanied, parents come later.

You're all just chumps for sensationalised political headlines, meant to distract you from other news, namely the IG report.

Hey Belly,
Didn't Labor write a white paper on full employment in 1945?
Still waiting...

Labor buys votes on emotion, but actual policies to achieve anything of value are fairytales.

When I was young and had just joined the workforce I thought unions were there to support the worker.

As I got older I realise unions exist to fund a socialist political agenda, which more or less was the opposite of what I thought I was contributing too.

Not only that, Labor survives from payoffs from the gaming industry.

They sell out the Aussie worker in favour of immigrants (where did diversity quotas come from) and they have no ethics.

What would you expect from these sellout used-car salesmen?

You're on the right track though.
The answer is to not offer money as welfare but a job instead, and safeguard human usefulness in an age of robots and automation.

I say double dole to every unemployed person who works in a separate job system, doing things to help the government save money.

Why pay people $250 a week to do nothing, when you could pay $500 and get a full time worker.

'The job you have when you don't have a job'

Sorry, that last comment was posted in the wrong thread.