So you people whine if migrants 'bludge' off the system and you whine if they work.

You're difficult to please, aren't you? What on earth would you have them do?

matty wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 5:57pm:


At uni in England, when one of the Indians used to call up trying to sell some telephone plan, my mate used to start ordering a takeaway.
Chicken korma, basmati rice, onion bhajis etc

Keep it going and they hang up eventually.

Tell it to your Mama.

Annie Anthrax wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 6:02pm:



Hardly the same.
Her country was being overrun.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 5:59pm:


So why didn't you stay in your country instead of running away, coward?

beware wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 9:22am:



And don't tell me its already happened in early Australia because I will tell you to join Ancestry or go to your Archives Center and look at the original ship lists and documents that go with them.... you will be had pressed to find someone that did not provide the necessary documents and/or sponsorship necessary to get into our country.

99.9% of people came here legally with all documents provided and payments made!!!!

THE British government has paid out just over STG1 million ($A1.48 million) in compensation to dozens of child asylum seekers wrongly held in detention centers before 2005, lawyers said on Saturday.
London law firm Bhatt Murphy said in a statement that the government made the payments to 40 former teenage detainees between 2009 and 2010 after the government acknowledged it had been wrong to keep them in custody.

Bhatt Murphy said that nonspecialist immigration officials had incorrectly classified the teens as adults "purely on the basis of their appearance", forcing them to prove that they were underage. The government's age-verification procedures have since been reformed.

Immigrants' rights groups have long campaigned against the British practice of holding hundreds of child asylum seekers in immigration detention centers for weeks or longer, calling it inhuman.
In 2010 British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg vowed to put a stop to it, but a small number of children are still kept in custody, generally for much shorter periods of time.

Britain's Border Agency said on Saturday that it takes the welfare of young people seriously.

The Guardian newspaper, which first reported the payout, said that children came from Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Eritrea, Uganda, Somalia and China. The newspaper says 25 of the children were aged 14 to 16.

The paper said some were survivors of torture or sexual abuse, and quoted two of them as saying they'd been traumatised by their experiences.

Legal restrictions mean none of the children can be identified.


http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/uk-pays-15m-for-wrongly-detaining-kids/stor...

beware wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 9:22am:



People jumping on boats to get to Australia for a better life - that's petty much the First Fleet, isn't it? And all the settlers that came after.