70 ‘desperate’ asylum seekers on Nauru REJECT chance to move to the US when they’re told they’ll have to work & won’t get free welfare

[Sugar Cookie]

A total of 71 asylum seekers on Nauru have turned down the chance to move to the US after discovering they would need to work and wouldn't get free welfare.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton claimed those who who rejected the move were not 'genuine' refugees.

Mr Dutton claimed their reluctance to take up the opportunity proved they were simply economic migrants trying to take advantage of generous welfare systems.

He told The Daily Telegraph: 'People who have refused to take a place in the US are not genuine.

'Millions of refugees have gone to the US and may have died trying because it's one of the greatest countries in the world.

'Reports have come back to people on Nauru it's all a bit financially tight there because you have to get a job and there's no welfare there.'

With Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing on Thursday he aimed to remove all children from Nauru by Christmas, pressure has been growing on the government to accept an offer from the New Zealand government to resettle refugees.

The prime minister has said he would accept such an offer if it meant those sent to New Zealand received lifetime bans on returning to Australia.

But the Home Affairs Minister said people-smugglers would likely keep trying to bring refugees back into Australia.

And that would mean more children could end up back on Nauru, defeating the purpose of the Liberal government pledge.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rs-Nauru-REJECT-chance-wont-free-welfare.html

 

[CentreAussie]

This is why we keep our borders locked tight with jets & warships and enforce international law. This is the stuff you have to do if you want a society with free schools, healthcare, low crime rates, an economic environment where anyone can afford a respectable lifestyle if only they are prepared to work 40 hours a week. All of that comes at a price. That price is that we can't let people come here just because they are poor. Wanting a better life doesn't make you a refugee.

Dissident journalist on a hit list? Sure, come on in.
Government gonna murder you for your religion? Yeah, we have room.
You're just poor and want to send money home? Go read that UN thing that we all signed.

Economic migrants are not refugees.

 

[Sejanus]

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