[Aus TV] "Go back where you came from"

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Found this program on Aussie TV with a fantastic format where they send a group of right wing mouth breathers in a revere journey to countries where people live whom they criticise the most by the same means they come.

I hope they do a UK edition and send Nick Griffin and Farage on a reverse journey to Iraq or Sub Saharan Africa.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV22TvyZ0M[/youtube]

They have done a couple of these. Unfortunately the message does not seem to be getting across, allowing both major political parties to call people legitimately seeking asylum "illegals" and either loading them into one use life boats and literally sending back to where they had come from IE Indonesia, or if they manage to get far enough into Australian waters that they are out of range of indonesia, they are packed of to a detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Here the locals with the help of PNG police recently raided the compound bashing to death one asylum seeker and injuring hundreds more.

The excuse given by both parties for this vile treatment of these people ( 90% of whom are found to be genuine refugees in need of humanitarian assistance) is that we need to stop them because they are risking their lives to get here and are fueling an illegal people smuggling trade.

% of Genuine refugee status

The figures have dropped slightly, but this it can be argued is because we now see Iraq and Afghanistan as "safe" and are returning people back to these countries under the false assumption that because our role in the wars we caused are over, it must be ok to live there.

immigration need only be illegal if you make it that way. By reducing the barriers to legal immigration, immigrants are more likely to declare themselves through the official channels.

Australia needs to factor in that many of these people are from countries where passports and other documents simply aren't the norm or if they are they will be stolen by nefarious figures trying to exploit their hardship. If they do this, then more people will declare themselves and it'll be easier to keep track of them. As long as the conditions in the countries of origin remain worse than the prospect of a speedy death or living off the grid then these people will continue to try and keep coming anyway, no matter how right wing the domestic policy becomes.

Anyway with a land size comparable to Europe and a population of fewer than 30 million if any developed country can afford to relax its borders it is Australia. We have similar issues in the UK with people trying to cross on lorries from France. However seeing how large Australia is I think their murmuring is even less legitimate not least considering the ancestry of those complaining.