Look, I'm not into a lot of bleeding heart crap, some facts ,if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me.
Is Indonesia at peace, is India at peace, is Bangladesh at peace, is Pakistan at peace? And by peace I mean are they a danger to people who would flee a war zone , so we have people ,with a good amount of coin crossing several countries to enter ours illegally . We have people flying into Indonesia, with all the required documentation , then paying to be dumped on an island knowing , up until recently , they would end up here . If fleeing danger is their focus why go from Indonesia and put them and their kids in terrible danger to come here!
I know the numbers of boat arrivals are small, ,and shrinking, but I also feel that coming here by plane and over staying your Visa is wrong, we have ways for people to come here, it happens everyday, hundreds of people immigrate here every year ( thousands really) , and become a part of our lifestyle ,our culture and our values,,,,,,,I've never heard the Vietnamese community wanting to have there legal system forced on us, same for the Italians, Germans, Dutch, South Africans ,South Americans , infact there is only one group I can think of in the last 80 years that has arrived at the shores of other countries and then methodically tried to force their culture and legal system onto the people who let them stay.
I know it's just not done to speak the truth in our society, we prefer to be "nice" and treat everyone equally, personally I agree ,I treat everyone the same " if you respect me ,honor my country , be grateful for what we have , be part of the solution not the problem then I'll do the same for you ,I will respect you, I'll be happy to hear your story, I'll give you every chance I can to make a NEW life( as opposed to dragging some evil sh1t in with you) .
If being proud of my country is so wrong then I'll be happily branded an "ignorant patriot " then so be it , I love my country, we have our problems , but it's a good place , I see nothing wrong with wanting to protect that, and I'm fine with our government having procedures in place to do that , the previous one was a friggin nightmare of media sluts , criminals and loons, going from all huggy and virtually open borders ( which killed a lot of people, let's not forget that ) to bungled deals all over the South Pacific to farm their self made problems elsewhere.
I've seen the numbers,,," we only take a small amount compared to other countries" ,,,,so what! I couldn't care if it was a half a dozen people, if you choose to come here illegally then we have the right to either say NO or check you out to find out what sort of people you are, if your genuine ,WELCOME, if not GOODBYE,
Matty