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Originally Posted by MrFriendly
Immigration for me isn't about who we let in. I agree, we should scrutinise carefully who we do. But my biggest issue to the completely heartless and deplorable way refugees are treated when they get to this country. As far as I'm concerned there is absolutely no excuse for it. Yes, by all means, detain them, but they don't have to be treated like savages.
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I've moved this to a new thread mate, hope u don't mind.
It really is a no-win situation this one. We can't have an open-door policy or else in 20 years we might as well change our name to Talibania, but detaining everyone indefinately who sneaks in is also an untenable situation in the long run. This is a problem faced by many countries and i can't really offer an alternative.
What i can say is that I seriously doubt these people are being 'treated like savages'. Do you honestly think, living here and knowing how anal all the regulations and restrictions on everything are, that those people would be getting treated with an utter lack of respect? The visions you see on TV are being used to push an agenda. If someone wants you to be pissed off and demand a stop to detaining these people, they're going to take the worst scenes they can get their hands on, whether it's in context or not, and try to paint the bleakest picture they can.
Note: The term refugees doesn't apply here IMO. They have broken our laws on our territory. I endorse the intake of refugees but I don't think that covers people who have paid large sums of money to be smuggled into our country.