Category: Australia

Australia: Refugee lawlessness grows in Melbourne

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Be sure to check out the 2005 Cronulla riots, here, before reading this story from the Sydney Morning Herald today:

THE social unrest experienced during the Cronulla riots could be replicated in Melbourne suburbs due to high levels of crime among Sudanese and Somali born residents, police have warned.

Sudanese and Somali born Victorians are about five times more likely to commit crimes, official figures show, with assault and robbery the most common offences, illustrating a trend of increasingly violent robberies by disaffected African youths.

”We’ve got to fix this now and make sure it doesn’t continue, so the kids who are now 10 years old aren’t in this offender bracket in five years’ time. So we don’t get the Cronullas happening,” the Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner, Tim Cartwright, said. ”[At Cronulla] you had a big chunk of the community disengaged and coming to a point where you have large-scale civil unrest. That’s abhorrent to us, to think we would have that.

Read it all.

Australia has lots of refugee problems.  We have 77 previous posts in our Australia category if you would like to learn more.

Phony Iraqi refugee was Australian human trafficking kingpin….

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…..and the Australian police let him slip through their fingers and escape the country!

You know what is really interesting about this story, besides the fact that they actually have real investigative reporting in Australia, is that if the police suspected two years ago that he was a smuggler, why was he given refugee status—two years ago?

From AFP (emphasis mine):

SYDNEY — Australian police said Thursday an alleged people-smuggling kingpin who was granted a refugee visa fled the country this week after a television expose, and they were powerless to stop him.

Tony Negus, head of the Australian Federal Police, said the accused smuggler known as Captain Emad flew out of Melbourne on Tuesday after a damning documentary about him aired in Australia on Monday.

Emad had travelled from Indonesia on a people-smuggling boat in January 2010 and set up smuggling operations in the national capital Canberra after being granted asylum under a false name, according to the ABC Four Corners programme.

The allegations angered Jakarta, who described them as “disappointing and difficult” given that Australia expected their help in tracking down people-smugglers.

Negus took the rare step of confirming Thursday that Emad had been the focus of police inquiries for two years, given the significant public interest in the case, but said the Iraqi-born man had since fled.

“There was an operational decision made by investigators that he could not be detained as the officers had no lawful basis to prevent him from departing Australia,” Negus told reporters.

“This was despite the material recently aired in the Four Corners programme being thoroughly analysed by our investigators.

Something smells about this story.  Why let the “head of the snake” go?  Not enough evidence!  Why anger the Indonesian government?  Why give him refugee status in the first place?

Emad was described as the “head of the smugglers, the head of the snake” by an informant who linked him to a powerful Indonesian ring behind two ill-fated boats which sank before reaching Australia, killing almost 150 people.

He was sent as part of a plan to expand the ring’s operations in Australia, along with “at least” another six agents on board his ship who were also granted refugee status, according to the programme.

There is more, read it all.   Maybe its time for ol’ Tony to get the boot!   (come to think of it, that could be the theme song for the refugee program in general!)

Fear of being called “racists” kept UK authorities silent for years on sex trafficking ring

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Update:  Here is a lengthy story at the Daily Mail with lots more facts about the verdict and about (by our standards) the very short sentences some of the perverts received.

And, frankly, even this story is exhibiting that same political correctness it criticizes—in the UK they can’t seem to get the word “Muslim” to come out of their mouths, so they call all the Muslim immigrants from places like Pakistan “Asians!”

Here is the dreadful story.  Reminds me of the Somali sex trafficking ring on trial in Nashville right now.

From the Sydney Morning Herald (check out the mugshots of these creeps!):

Police and social workers in England have been accused of failing to investigate a South Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, leaving the men free to prey on up to 50 white girls.

Nine men from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, were convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol and small sums of money.

The true number of victims who were “passed around” by the gang was likely to have been nearer 50, police said.

Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim, known as Girl A, to trial following her initial cry for help in August 2008.

One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was raped by 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard. Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were “petrified of being called racist”, Ann Cryer, the former Labour MP for Keighley, said.

Mrs Cryer, who has campaigned to bring the issue of Asian sex gangs to light, said the girls had been “betrayed” and condemned to “untold misery” by the police and social services.

“This is an absolute scandal. They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness,” she said. “They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in dealing with the issues in front of them.”

Canada: Tamil Tigers on board the MV Sun Sea; Tigers in Oakland?

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So what else did you expect!

I should be writing about yesterday’s State Department meeting where federal contractors made their pitches for more refugees for FY2013 and I will get to that shortly (I hope), but to add a little variety to our stories about bureaucracy in Washington, I’m posting this update of a story I wrote about back in 2010—Sri Lankans loaded on ships and taken to Canada by human smugglers, here.  Canadian immigration officials are sorting through the nearly 500 illegal entrants from this one ship to sort out the terrorist Tigers from legitimate asylum seekers.

By the way, here is a little Tiger trivia:   Tamil Tigers are famous for pioneering the use of the suicide belt.

From the National Post:

Deportation orders have been issued against two more of the 492 Sri Lankan refugee claimants who arrived off the B.C. coast in 2010 aboard the smuggling ship MV Sun Sea.

In separate decisions, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ordered the expulsion of both men, ruling one had engaged in people smuggling and the other had been a member of a Tamil rebel group.

The cases bring to 19 the number of Sun Sea migrants who have been issued deportation orders to date. All have been declared inadmissible to Canada due to their involvement in terrorism and crime.

“Canada opens its doors to those who work hard and play by the rules. However, we must crack down on those who seek to take advantage of our generosity, often for financial gain,” Julie Carmichael, spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, said Tuesday.

Neither of the latest deportees was named in the heavily edited rulings released to the National Post, but one was found to have served in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam between 2005 and 2006, when he was in his mid-20s.

Read the whole article, there is lots of interesting information about trafficking and what it costs and who is making a fortune from it.  Makes me wonder again who is trafficking Somalis into the US.

Sri Lankans to Oakland!

This reminds me that the US State Department and the International Rescue Committee helped Australia with a little illegal immigration problem of theirs by taking illegal alien Sri Lankans off the Australians hands in 2010 and placing them in Oakland, CA.   Here is the story I wrote nearly two years ago.   And, this is a point I made in my testimony to the State Department—Congress should forbid the use of this program for other foreign policy objectives.

Just a reminder that the International Rescue Committee’s Anne Richard has been confirmed as Obama’s pick to head the State Department refugee program.  Another contractor is now in charge of doling out the federal bucks (your bucks!).  She started her work this week by traveling to Switzerland, Iraq and Jordan.

Socialist Guterres says Australia has best refugee program in the world

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I don’t know if that is a compliment or curse coming from UNHCR head honcho Antonio Guterres a long time socialist leader.

From the Fairfield Advance:

UNITED Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said Australia had the best refugee resettlement program in the world during his visit to Fairfield High School yesterday.

Mr Guterres enjoyed afternoon tea with students, teachers and community members during the whirlwind visit.

The former Portuguese prime minister also met with parents in the school’s Parents Café, a place where recently-arrived migrants catch up to learn more about their new life in Australia.

“Australia has the most successful program of resettlement in the world,” Mr Guterres said.

“It is not easy to resettle in a new country; there is a different culture, a different way of living, even a different climate.

“I think Australia should be commended, because civil society, the schools, the local authorities, the government services all work together in order to make (refugees) feel at home and feel part of this wonderful country.

The country is so wonderful that some Muslims want to go back “home” from time to time (on the taxpayers dime no less!)

Apparently the refugees are all so comfortable that this week we learned that “new Australians,” who are Muslim are asking that the government give them subsidies to go back to home countries for family visits.  And, they want help with housing in special segregated enclaves.  I kid you not!

Here is the story from the Herald Sun (Hat tip:  Jihad Watch):

NEW migrants should get taxpayer subsidies to visit overseas relatives, an Islamic group has told the Federal Government.

The Islamic Women’s Welfare Association also says Muslims prefer to live close to their own people and Australia should consider how to “facilitate the purchase of homes for new migrants”.

In a submission to a federal multicultural inquiry, the association has urged the Government to give tax deductions to newly arrived migrants so they can visit relatives in their homelands.

“Migrants face a lot of sacrifices such as having to travel long distances to visit relatives, spending on communication costs, missing out on some events occurring in native countries etc,” the submission said.

“This loss should be compensated by the Government in one way or the other to retain migrants in their country of adoption.”

Sounds like an idea a socialist like Guterres would love!

Australia good, Europe bad!

Last spring Guterres chastised Europe for not opening its arms to the Arab Springers coming in from North Africa, here.

Who is Guterres trying to fool, check our category on Australia where we have 73 posts on problems with asylum seekers/refugees/immigrants to Australia.