~Task 2~

…Refugees Coming To Australia…

Refugees are people who fled from their homes in the face of persecution, or threats to their lives. But there is no reason why the Australian government should be obliged to welcome asylum seekers who use illegal methods to come here. We have the responsibility to protect our borders and way of life against what could amount to a huge arrival of immigrants whose backgrounds and possible criminal status are unknown.Australia shouldn’t accept the refugees as they are over populating the country and if we do more and more will come. People believe that asylum seekers deserve a fair go just like everyone else, but why should they if they are receiving everything off tax payers money.

With the ever increasing number of refugees entering our country, many Australians are struggling to sustain what they once had. Many Australians were already struggling before the arrival of the refugees, and are only suffering more. Most Australians don’t earn or own substantial amounts of money and with the arrival of the asylum seekers it just puts more strain on them. Many people are now loosing their jobs and houses as they can no longer pay their mortgages, bills and purchase everyday needs as the government believes it is better to support the arrival of asylum seekers. Many Australians are in need of public housing and extra cash and the government seems to be failing its own people and giving it all away to the asylum seekers awaiting processing. The asylum seekers are given free clothing, housing, money, discounts, schooling, medical attention and seem to be getting a better life. In the detention centers and housing that they are put in, the facilities are much better then what the every day person has. These well equipped detention centers and housing meet the needs of all ages. The people are well fed and have comfortable shelter and security in contrast to the conditions they endured on their boats. They are lucky to be handed all these free items and necessities and yet they don’t seem happy with what they are given. You see and hear things on the news about them trashing and disregarding some of the things that they are handed, calling for better treatment. They get to walk around the streets of Australia and go shopping. What more could they want? They get life better here then a lot of the people who have been loyal to their country. They seem to not want to adjust to our ways of life and want us to become more like them which is wrong. They have come to our country illegally so they should respect our ways and rights. Its wrong that the people in our country that do the right thing have to fight hard to get the simplest things in life and the refugees are handed everything on a golden platter.

Many refugees come from war torn countries and third world countries, but we don’t know if the people coming here are criminals and have records back from where they came from. When anyone wants to leave the country or even leave the state to go on a holiday, they are checked for criminal records and have to go through customs. No fair-minded Australian would advocate leaving our borders unprotected against security threats. Therefore, we must conduct screening to check the backgrounds and legal status of all people who arrived illegally. It is only fair that the people of this country know that they are safe from any criminal acts that might occur under the asylum seekers control. Even though the refugees are handed a lot of things, they still go out and cause crime. A Darwin magistrate ordered a Burmese asylum seeker to face criminal charges. Harroon Rashid had been charged with causing harm to Commonwealth officials, aggravated assault and four counts of damaging Commonwealth property. Rashid assaulted five Serco guards at Darwin's Northern Immigration Detention Center last August. Rashid is not the only case, 41.32 people per 100,000 asylum seekers will be charged for criminal offences. This is only the number of people charged with criminal offences, imagine the amount of refugees that have caused a crime and have not been charged for it. If we allow more crimes to persist what message does that send to the asylum seekers already in the country and those that are going to come? That Australia is a slack country and all you will get is a slap on the wrist? No, that’s not right. There are Australians who do crimes that aren’t as bad as some of the ones that the refugees commit yet they get a harsher sentence. While some people say that we must show compassion, it seems the most compassionate thing we can do for migrants and for all Australians is to ensure the safety of our people and that the proper system is used. This prevents risky criminal activities and exploitation, thereby preserving our nation's peace and security.

Australia shouldn’t accept refugees coming to Australia as they are over populating the country and if we do accept them its sends a message to those thinking about seeking asylum here, that it is fine to do so which will lead to more coming. The majority of the population in Australia have migrated here from other countries. Australia’s recent figures of intake of refugees have increased (there is no exact number as total keeps increasing) which will have a significant impact on population figures. Allowing asylum seekers to stay will affect communities as they will migrate to low social-economic areas which are heavily populated with lack of infrastructure funded by the government. You hear and see the stories about the refugees coming by boat and onboard are pregnant woman who are near full term. Australian hospitals are suffering due to the lack of funding and yet we are allowing female asylum seekers to give birth in our hospitals, when many hospital beds are closed and we also have waiting list where some people need to wait up to 6 years just to get an operation. Its wrong. By overpopulating the country we are putting the resources that we have on high demand and very soon we could end up with none. If Australia is such a pleasant place, why are we letting our image get dragged across the floor? Australia is labeled as a paradise country, a place where everyone wants to come live. But how can we attract tourism if we have asylum seekers to worry about? You hear about celebrities wanting to come move to Australia, and about people from other countries wanting to live here too. How can they when Australia is overpopulated and there are minimal places to keep building to sustain the ever growing population.

Different people see the asylum seekers in different situations. Some see them and immediately give them sympathy and say that they would do the same if they were in the same situation as those fleeing their country. These people would welcome the asylum seekers into their homes with open arms and would be willing to give them everything that they need to start a new life here. Those that believe that asylum seekers should be granted permission to stay in Australia are the type of people who believe that the asylum seekers are just like everyone else and deserve a better way at life. What those people don’t realize is that by thinking like that they are putting their ‘own’ people in jeopardy and don’t see the crisis that our country is in. Those Australians who open their arms to asylum seekers, why don’t they open their arms out to their own who are in desperate need for a roof over their heads.
Many Australians see them all as people who only come here for the money and this annoys them because in a way they are paying for them. Some tax they pay goes straight into asylum seekers pockets. It would just be so much easier if they were put on a plane and sent back to their country as it puts more money in our pockets and Australians suffer less. All the money wasted on the asylum seekers could be better spent on Australias education, hospital funding, cancer research and other necessary things for the survival of the country.

To conclude, I believe that refugees have no place in Australia as they are doing the wrong thing by coming here illegally when there are so many others who are suffering but still do the right thing and come to Australia the legal way. The refugees are given better benefits then the hard working Australians by the government which is wrong. The government allows people into the country and they don’t know who they really are and if they are a criminal or have criminal offences against their name. By the government allowing the asylum seekers into the country, they are putting there own people at risk of losing everything that they have worked so hard for, and the chance of losing tourism to the country. Refugees should not be allowed into the country, we should all think about what means most to us. The people who work so hard everyday to keep this country going or the people who come here illegally to ‘steal’ what’s important to the Australian way.