Posted on 05/21/2018 9:29:36 AM PDT by bgill
Around 50 competitors have remained in Australia illegally after going missing during this year's Commonwealth Games, a government official has said. Nearly 200 others hold bridging visas and are applying for refugee status. Australia has warned it will deport those who stay in the country illegally, after dozens of competitors - including many from Africa - disappeared from the competition. The numbers are a dramatic increase on other international sporting events... Australian media had speculated that anywhere between 20 and 100 athletes had absconded during the Golden Coast Games, which ended on 15 April. They included eight members of Cameroon's delegation, as well as participants from Uganda, Sierra Leone and Rwanda.
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“They included eight members of Cameroon’s delegation, as well as participants from Uganda, Sierra Leone and Rwanda.”
What could possibly go wrong?
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“What could possibly go wrong?”
Yeah, imagine that, Black Africans wanting not to go “home” to Black Africa!
They don’t want to go home to Wakanda?
Yeah, and Australia will be called racist for deporting them back to their black African homes.
OTOH, who can blame them.
Give me a home among the gum trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLWzPQmd5sc
Wakanda has a wall and wouldn't let them inn
At least Australia was able to tell that they had not left. Here we’d never know.
I would have thought that the Commonwealth Games would be restricted to members of the British Commonwealth (those recognizing the British crown)....well, there’s only 16 of them left. Maybe former British colonies? Then USA would be eligible.
I can’t see that Rwanda was a British colony...German and Belgian, yes.
Normally a Commonwealth country will have been a British possession (or a possession of a British dominion - Namibia was once a South African possession, Papua New Guinea was Australian, and Samoa was New Zealand) but exceptional cases can be made for other nations to join - both Mozambique and Rwanda have basically been allowed to join because it was considered it would aid their further development - it's very non PC to say so, but the fact is, for the most part, the Commonwealth has been good at shepherding countries, particularly in Africa, towards more modern, and democratic status, compared to most the other colonial powers - and Mozambique and Rwanda could see the advantage.
If the US ever saw any advantage in becoming part of the Commonwealth, I expect it would be welcomed by most. But it's not like the US needs that sort of help.
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