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01 Jul 05:55am

Filed under: America, Arizona, Asylum Seekers, Australia, Border Protection, Immigration, Refugees, United States Of America, Usa, Weekend Punch

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On a highway in Arizona, south of Phoenix, a sign reads: DANGER — PUBLIC WARNING — TRAVEL NOT RECOMMENDED - Active Drug and Human Smuggling Area - Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed.

There are no such signs on the roads of Christmas Island, outside Villawood, or by the Curtin detention centre in north-west WA.

Australia’s and America’s immigration issues bear almost no resemblance, except that people die on boats from Java, and they die crossing the miserable mesquite plains of America’s south.

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stoneage liberal says:

04:21pm | 02/07/12

Sick of etc. I think you will find that colonisation is the correct term, it does not imply that there were not people before. To be honest I think you will find that the British were one of the lesser of the colonising evils around at the time. Take a… Read more »
marley says:

01:00pm | 02/07/12

@fml - if you go to the article “Parliament is Broken” and scroll down to Dobbo’s comment at 12:46 you’ll see the exchange: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/parliament-is-broken-time-for-an-election/ In a nutshell, while push factors are important, so are government responses. And my comments in the link explain my grounds for thinking so. In a… Read more »

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