Posted on 02/20/2015 1:59:03 PM PST by Kaslin
Australia had a problem with illegal immigration.
It doesn’t anymore.
In the past seven months, not one single illegal immigrant arrived on Australian shores. Not one single boat has docked on the Australian coastline.
Compare this to the preceding four year period: over 50,000 illegal immigrants arrived on Australian shores. More than 800 boats. Upwards of 1000 people drowned at sea. A budget blowout of more than 10.3 billion dollars.
Those that arrived were given welcome hampers, mobile phones, plasma TVs, housing, medical and other household items- all at a cost to the taxpayer.
And the overwhelming majority of those that came were not genuine refugees; many of them turned up in designer clothes, and with mobile phones. They weren’t fleeing persecution; they just wanted a piece of Australia’s generous welfare state.
Frighteningly, some of them appeared to be Western haters, with one incident captured on video, with one illegal immigrant, upset to have been intercepted by the Australian military, told the military to “F--- Australia ... If later on you said why they do that to America on September 11, you should know the cause of it is your very deeds. Remember 9/11 for United States. All the world should know why.”
It was a mess.
It happened because a center-left government (the equivalent of the Democrats) elected in late 2007, decided to dismantle the existing tough and effective border security policy. They made the usual self-righteous left-wing claims that the existing policies were inhumane, immoral and sent the wrong message. While never brave enough to say it, their actions said it all: they believed in open borders.
And so they presided over more than 1000 deaths at sea, and were a boon to the evil people smugglers all over South-East Asia. Not only did their policy fail; it killed people.
The Australian people silently revolted. They saw them, rightly, as “queue-jumpers”- and believed it was unfair to genuine refugees (Australia already has a generous refugee intake) and those seeking to come the right way. They were devastated at the deaths of men, women and children on the high seas, who had been encouraged to take the perilous journey. And they were concerned about how much money this fiasco was costing. Not to mention- we didn’t know who these people were. Were they compatible with our way of life?
So, they threw out the government at the national election in September 2013. One of the incoming government’s core election promises was to “stop the boats”. Immediately, Prime Minister Tony Abbott got to work.
As he couldn’t stop the boats overnight, in those first few months, his government said to the illegal immigrants arriving to Australia two options: “You’ve arrived in Australia illegally. As a result, you will never get to stay here. You will never get to be an Australian. So, you have two options- we will take you to a processing center, and you will wait in detention for your asylum application to be processed. Or we will fly you home free.”
In addition to this, the Abbott government got the Australian military to enforce its border protection, intercepting boats, turning them around, and even towing them back. And it applied pressure on Indonesia, by demanding they secure their own border.
Soon, the message got out, and the boats have stopped. It’s an ongoing issue that requires vigilance, but it has been achieved. Australia’s policy has been exceptionally effective in saving lives. It’s been done amid incessant howling from the Left and the mainstream media.
The successful Australian model is one America must learn from. It shows what can happen when you develop a policy and adhere to it strictly, with no exceptions.
Instead of praising Australia on gun laws, President Obama should be praising Australia’s border security.
President Obama needs to toughen up. He needs to begin dispensing leadership, here and abroad. He needs to say: “We will determine who comes into this country, and the circumstances under which they come.” He needs to say: “If you come to America illegally, you will never ever get to stay. You will never be an American. We will send you home. Period.” Illegals should be aware that they will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result. He needs to get the National Guard down there to do its job. He needs to demand that Mexico police its own border, and if not, threaten them with trade sanctions.
That’s real leadership.
What can be more humanitarian than saving the thousands of people’s lives who die crossing the border? What can be more humanitarian than ensuring the safety of 300 million Americans?
Populations are on the move. Western countries’ borders are under attack everywhere. Time for honesty from the Left: how many millions do we really want, and how will they change this country?
The illegals are being clever now sending their children. This is happening all around the world. It does not matter what their age; send them back. It’s time to administer tough love.
It’s the only way. Australia has proved it. Now, it’s time for America, the world’s leader and indispensable nation, to do the same.
I would suppose the fact the entire country is surrounded by shark infested waters has something to do with that.
I am green with envy of those aussies.
“President Obama needs to toughen up.”
As if.
I’m sure it helps. But knowing what kind of reception they are going to get helps even more. As the article pointed out, there were plenty of boats willing to make the crossing before Tony Abbott was put in charge.
The Democrats and the GOPe “ It can’t be done!! “
L I A R S
A couple of things.
Almost half the illegal aliens in the USA got here by aircraft, and are simply overstaying their visas. There are direct flights to the USA from just about every country in the world—or at least every major metropolitan area, and often several per day from the same place.
Now it is a pain to fly to Australia. I know. I’ve done it. The flight is long for one thing and access is controlled before you even leave your departing airport. And there really isn’t that many flights compared to the USA.
But the Aussies are correct—you can discourage them from even trying. The democrats laughed at Gingrich and Romney back in 2012 for saying that the illegals here would mostly self-deport if we made things hard for them. Looks like the Republicans were right.
The left treats this as a major scandal. Australia sends these immigrants to other countries.
My thought was similar: sort of hard to swim across several hundred or thousands of miles to get across the border and into the country.
Hunger striking asylum-seekers in Darwin
Refugee protesters on Nauru disrupt Australian officials’ visit
“Refugee advocacy group ChilOut said the Australian government has moved children out of detention in Darwin and transferred them to Nauru in the days following the release of the Human Rights Commission’s damning report into children in detention.
“Children who were taken from Blaydin Point detention centre were not provided with notice – they were removed from the centre, put on a plane and deported back to a place that has caused them serious mental and physical harm,” ChilOut director Claire Hammerton told New Matilda.”
Degrading treatment of asylum seekers reflects poorly on Australia - Brisbane Times
Doctors speak out against conditions on Nauru Sydney Morning Herald
The left has gone nuts on this issue in Australia, this author makes it seem like a huge success story. The press is savaging the government over this.
“President Obama needs to toughen up”
There is much naivete to this. All you need to about the border issue is this:
If it was found that the Hispanic vote went 60/40 for the GOP the border would be shut tight within two weeks. Chain migration would be stopped and anchor babies would be challenged all the way to the SC.
Australia ships more young children to Nauru - Radio New Zealand
excerpt
An Australian Greens senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, says the Australian government is still sending children to the Nauru asylum seeker detention camp.
She says Australia sent children, some as young as four, to the camp on Friday and Saturday, just days after the release of a damning report on the abuses they face.
In the report the Australian Human Rights Commission says Canberra’s policy of indefinitely detaining children in Nauru is in clear violation of international human rights law.
I think that Australia has elected a government that carries out the wishes of its people, who prefer to follow the rule of law. This is in stark contrast to the USA.
I cannot say whether disorder will win in the USA but it certainly is out in front as we allow illegals into our country, two illegals for each job.
No concern at all for the unemployed citizens of the USA, especially blacks. As long as we have low information voters we will continue the path to certain chaos.
Not a single illegal in seven months, and whattaya know...the world didn’t come to an end!
We MUST do the same here.
Clearly, the old fixeroo is in, and we are the rubes in the cowtown audience going for the scam.
Australia Immigration Department denies it has approved a Sirul tell-all interview on murder
The Department of Immigration has said that it has not approved any tell-all televison interviews with a police commando sentenced to hang in Kuala Lumpur who is currently held at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre.
Sirul Azhar Umar told Malaysia’s online news website Malaysiakini that he has been negotiating with Australian television stations for a politically explosive interview where he would reveal who ordered him to shoot Mongolian socialite Altantuya Shaariibuu as she begged for the life of her unborn baby, before blowing her up in a patch of jungle on Kuala Lumpur’s outskirts.
Immigration raids major firm over alleged visa fraud
“The firm has allegedly assisted dozens of Irish workers fraudulently obtain 457 temporary skilled and other visas to work on key national projects, including the multi-billion dollar Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas project and Western Australia’s Sino Iron project.”
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those danged Irish!
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