According to the Oxford Dictionary, a refugee is someone who ‘Escaped to a foreign country from religious or political persecution.’
Let’s take the case of a Muslim escaping from ‘where-ever.’ They enter Indonesia legally. They are now in a country where their religion is widely practised. They have escaped from their own country and are now in a country where they are not being hounded for their political or religious beliefs. They’re home. They are refugees living in Indonesia.
They decide to leave the sanctuary of Indonesia. They destroy all their papers, pay big money to jump on a boat and come to the ‘lucky country AUSTRALIA’ without any papers. Upon arrival in Australia, they receive all sorts of handouts from the government and if the paint in the refugee camp is not of their choice of colour, they can get some lawyer (on legal aid) to sue the government on their behalf because the colour is effecting their eyesight.
But hang on a minute. What are they escaping from? They are in Indonesia. No one is persecuting them for their religion. No one is persecuting them for their political beliefs. They are safe. Why would they want to run away from a country that practices their beliefs? Why would they want to go to a country that practices Christian doctrine when they don’t want to have anything to do with Christianity?
The moment those people step on the boats in Indonesia, they have chosen to ‘throw their refugee status away.’ They were safe in that country. They also chose to break Indonesia’s immigration laws by not filling departure forms. Why is it that upon arrival in Australia, those ‘so-called-refugees’ are not charged with being ‘ILLEGAL MIGRANTS’ and thrown on the first available flight out of the country. They were refugees whilst they were in Indonesia. They then chose to get rid of their papers. They chose to leave the country that had given them shelter. They chose to pay someone to transport them to Australia. They chose to get on a boat. But above all, they chose to leave the country that gave them sanctuary — INDONESIA.
Why is it that honest, hard working Australians have to pay taxes to keep those illegal migrants (not refugees) in comfort while some do-gooder lawyer makes money out of the situation by trying to sue the government, to get more money for those who shouldn’t be in this country in the first place? WAKE UP AUSTRALIA! THEY ARE NOT REFUGEES. THEY ARE ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.