Debono asks:
"tell us what we should do with illegal immigrants."
Provided they don't grind the faces of the poor
(with things like AWAs instead of collective
bargaining) I'm a believer in 'Free Markets'.
In contrast to the days of High Protection
when it was illegal to export or import
all sorts of goods and capital without
complying with all sorts of rules and
bans and sanctions and fines and
duties and having your 'illegal
goods' impounded by zealous
Customs officers, today
(apart from drugs and
plastic explosives)
Free Trade is all
the rage EXCEPT
when people
are involved.
So my solution is simple - delete the word
'illegal' in regards to immigrants and let
maket forces determine who comes in
and who comes out - exactly as we
let market forces determine what
goods and capital come in
and come out - but with
all the necesary checks
that are given to cash
and goods for crime
connections being
done for people
movements.
A case in point about migration and market forces:
As there are good jobs in Canberra, people from
other cities and towns migrate here - but when
(after living in a motel for several weeks) they
find that affordable housing is non-existent,
they pack up and head elsewhere.
If there were no jobs here, long-term
residents with no other income
would pack up and leave for
were jobs and affordable
housing could be found.
What the Liberal 'Cage Em' policy lacked
(apart from humanity) was the very
thing that the Liberal Parrty was
founded to protect - personal
liberty and autonomy.
During the Howard era, it was OK
for goods and money to cross
our borders without let or
hindrance (except for the
proceeds of crime, drugs
or quarantine threats)
but autonomous
movements of
people were
seen as a
HUGE AND MONSTROUS THREAT
to civilisation as we know it and
MUST BE EXTIRPATED WITH
ruthless efficiency - even
concentration camps for
innocent children!
There HAS to be better way so why not
have an ultra-simple migration test:
You're an Australian if you say you are.
You're a tourist if you say you are.
The government's job is to record
births, deaths, marriages, in and
out travel movements and keep
an eye out for heroin, Semtex
and salami sausages from the
Old Country where exotic
animal diseases occur.
BUT what about the Yellow Peril
and the Black Death and the
Red Hordes and being
swamped by people
who will use MY
front lawn as a
public lavatory?
When the federal governent said it was
going to float the Aussie Dollar and
abolish many tarriffs and liberate
cross-border capital movements
from goverment controls, the
Nervous Nellies screamed
and yelled - but the sky
did NOT fall and life
was much better.
So let's liberate goods, capital and people
movements from over-zealous border
protection and let Market Forces
be our Guiding Light - which is
precisely why the Liberal Party
was founded - not to run
concenration camps!
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