I think the average American/Australian is fair minded about immigration and refugess. Personally I think if we are selective (millions to select from) we should be generous. Those with opposing ideology to Western civilisation should be kept out as harsh as that sounds. Many more good refugees who could add and not detract from this country. A good start would be Sth African farmers although they are the wrong colour for the marxist. They seem to hate hard working people who contribute to society above those wanting to suck on the welfare system.

Dear David F.,

Australia does have a refuge program. Refugees do have
rights. We have signed the UN Refugee Convention. We
were one of the first countries to sign up in 1954
apparently.

We can withdraw from it of course, provided we give 12
months notice. However in the meantime the Conventions
provisions do apply to us and they have been enshrined in
Australian law. They oblige us to offer protection to
refugees who have left their country and arrive here.
The Convention leaves it up to us to establish whether the
refugees meet the definition of a refugee - that is,
whether the refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution on
the grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership of a
particular social group or political opinion.

If we remove our membership of the Convention, we would be the
1st of the 145 member countries to withdraw and we would be
turning our backs on genuine refugees who have no alternative
but to flee their country, including as a result of wars in
which we have participated in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However it would end the hypocrisy of Australia pretending to
be a splendid international citizen through membership of the
Refugee Convention while turning ourselves inside out to avoid
its obligations.

As for selling weapons overseas?

What an extra-ordinary path for our government to pursue.
They've withdrawn their support for the car industry and
they're not a big supporter of renewal energy technology.
So instead, when looking for new manufacturing and
export opportunities the best they can come up with is -
weapons?

Millions are running from violence and our government's
answer is to produce weapons and sell them?

Have you Right wing bots got your own “Politically Correct Rants for the Right” manual? All you clones sound the same.

If you cognitive bludgers engaged your brain, you'd know that drugs and guns are everything to do with the current USA border crisis. Yet since the countries most affected are all Christian and democratic, it's quick, quick move the topic somewhere else. So off to Africa you go. Whereupon you start bragging about the smarts of a really dumb white bloke. If he had had half a brain it's probable that Mugabe would have got nowhere near power. Then again, your failure to engage your own brains may well elevate Smith to genius level given your standards.

"If you cognitive bludgers engaged your brain, you'd know that drugs and guns are everything to do with the current USA border crisis."

What have guns got to do with it?

"What have guns got to do with it?"

Seriously?

Guns enable the crims to carry out their illegal activities. One of the more lucrative activities is gun-running.

*...The market for drugs is chiefly in the United States. If there was not a lucrative market there would be little incentive for the drug gangs. If the United States would legalize drugs the market would no longer be lucrative. That would help....*

More profound messages from the orbiting blue phone box...FMD!

Warning Doctor...warning Doctor!

Meanwhile, over at the five star Sydney Mater Hospital, Pregnant non-resident Chines women, line up at twenty five grand a pop, to give birth to a new Australian citizen.
Of course that little known fact won't make the headlines.
More evidence of Chinese purchasing of Australian citizenship...!

And on board today, one of our austere posters decrys the Lebanese immigrants, as ALL criminals! ...that probably resembles the reality of somebody who crawled out of a Vietnamese jungle in nineteen seventy, straight into a police station, working half his life on stress leave, at tax payers expense. I'm guessing here OSW. But if you are the average copper from the period, that's how it works!