It is not my fault that the US considers India to be below many sub-Saharan African nations and North Korea (with a lower visa rejection rate) in terms of civil quality. Take it up with the cousins of your former colonial masters, not us. They are the ones who are ridiculing the growing numbers of illegal Indian immigrants, not us.
Yeah illegal Indian immigrants...read below the news item in Herald Sun, you nut
VICTORIANS have every right to be concerned about the fact there are now almost 60,000 foreign citizens living illegally in Australia.
That is enough illegal immigrants to outnumber the regional populations of Mildura or Shepparton.
As revealed in the Herald Sun today, more than half the illegal immigrants have been here for five or more years and 20,000 of them have lived here a decade or more.
This highlights a systemic failing by successive governments to correctly handle problems caused by foreign citizens who illegally remain in Australia.
These illegal immigrants pay no tax and yet are availing themselves of services that should be used by Australian citizens.
They are hurting everybody, including legitimate migrants and asylum seekers, by taking jobs and housing and using a wide array of public services.
Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria chairman Sam Afra is right to say more should be done to round up illegal immigrants and send them home.
While it is asylum seekers who pay people smugglers for boat trips to Australia that get most publicity, they actually represent only a small proportion of the problem.
Seventy-five per cent of illegal immigrants currently in Australia arrived by plane on tourist or temporary work visas and then simply overstayed.
Chinese citizens are the biggest group, followed by Americans, Malaysians, Britons and South Koreans.
It would be expensive to track down the illegal immigrants and send them home, but doing so would send a vital message that while Australia is willing to accept genuine refugees, it is not prepared to tolerate freeloaders who think they can just stay here without permission.
Illegal immigrant crisis needs fixing | Herald Sun