indomara@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Absolutely. My family and I want to the Brisbane “March for Australia” … I won’t bother retelling our experience again, check my post history if you like - but it wasn’t peaceful.
One of the lines we heard often from that screaming jeering pushy crowd was “I don’t mind immigrants, I’m not racist, I just don’t want the illegal immigrants here.”
Mate, we’re a fucking island, this isn’t America. We put the illegal immigrants in an offshore detention centre ffs. It’s not like they’re hopping the border.
skribe@piefed.social 1 week ago
Most illegal immigrants are poms that have overstayed their working-holiday visa.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 week ago
And they already have greater privileges than anyone else on a working holiday visa.
indomara@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah… I don’t think there are as many of those as you think.
No Aussie drivers licence, no healthcare, most places won’t rent to you, can’t build a life really.
It’s hard enough to build a life while minimising the data you spread around, but with the sheer number of services that require id and proof of right to be here I can’t imagine there are a ton of these people.