One of Australia’s major issues at the moment is illegal immigrants or ' boat people' as they have been named by the media. I have a few thoughts on this. But they are relativity easy to say so this will be a short blog entry.
1
its not a big deal! Compared to other countries Australia gets little to no refugees. I mean for example Australia got a total of 27536 illegal immigrants from 1976 to 2010. America has a total of 6,650,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico alone living in the US in 2009, so yeah we really don’t have much of a problem.
2
it can cost up to $70,000 to get a visa here. Do most people have that cash here, NO. would most people who are fleeing war hatred and persecution have that money, NO!
3
we should be flattered that people want to come to our island country. This is a good thing. Not only does it help strengthen our multicultural society that we boast about. It also means that we are a successful and prosperous country, the way I see it if people stop coming here that’s when it has all gone to hell.
So in conclusion cut them some slack people!
