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You know, there is a side to immigration that isn’t splashed across the news of the world, the “happy story.” Far too often, the news about immigration that is blaring out of our plasmas TVs, car radios, and home stereos is that of the bad kind.

Well I’m here to tell you both sides.

First all, when it comes to immigration laws, the entire world needs to smarten up, and the people that are hired or appointed to uphold those laws need to be a little more…how can I say it…A little more people-friendly is good place to start.

There are people in immigration that could use a little bit of charm schooling.

F**k, they have a bad attitude sometimes when it comes to those looking to immigrate into their country. Say, have you ever watched Border Patrol. The U.S. version is what is showing here in Australia.

I have a relationship with the immigration department here. It’s a pretty good one I guess, and I’m jumping through the last of the hoops I have had to jump through for the last 4 years and a bit, and by this time next year I hope I have my “permanent residency visa.”

Hey, if there is one guy who pays attention to immigration stories, I’m that guy. I know a little bit about it how it works, and you know what, it’s working pretty good considering the number of immigrants that enter your country every year.

The U.S. has more of a problem with “illegal entries” into the U.S.A. than they do with immigrant applicants.

Unlike Canada, they don’t take issue too many refugee visas, the kind of visas that cost taxpayers a lot of money to have issued to them and whatever taxpayer money is used to sustain them until they get on their feet, and start supporting themselves with legitimate employment, things like that.

The “immigration crime thing” doesn’t work for me though. As far as I’m concerned, if an immigrant to any country commits a crime in their adoptive country, I think there should be consequences that fit the crime.

For instance, are busted for shoplifting once, community service work, and not just a few f**king hours of it either. Get caught a second time-off to jail you go, get caught a third time-YOU’RE OUTTA THERE!

That sounds fair enough don’t you think.

Lying and giving misleading information on your immigration forms is not a good thing to do. People who do that will eventually be caught out, and when they do, wasting the taxpayer’s money exploring reasons why So and So should be allowed to remain in a country after providing misleading info.

Withholding information is a big deal too. The person that does that knows that whatever information they are withholding about themselves is enough to keep them out of the country at the point of entry.  For what other reason would somebody do that? Seriously.

Misrepresent yourself to the immigration officials deciding your fate, and you know what, out you f**king go.

Now that “good side” I mentioned.

My experience with immigration has been pretty good.

The people I deal with have been patient, blah, blah, blah, but there have been some bumps along the way.

I can honestly say they weren’t just caused by Australian immigration bureaucracy and red tape.

The blame can be spread around for that, but having said that, a lot of blame lies at the feet of external agencies that help are supposed to help you through the process. I don’t have any legal representation by the way, so therefore am handling the process myself, and doing what has to be done.

That’s not to say that I won’t need legal representation to take on immigration in the future. I don’t have a crystal ball to see that far ahead.

Like I said, by this time next year and if I continue to jump as high as immigration authorities ask me too, I will have my permanent residency papers and it will be one more weight lifted off our shoulders.  The weight of immigration has gradually lifted by the way, and that says a lot about how immigration and I have gotten along for the past four years.

This morning I see that the Americans are aiming to tighten up their immigration laws, and their policies and procedures, but as I said, illegal entries into the U.S. and related problems are what need to be fixed there. Illegal immigration carries a high cost to U.S. taxpayers living in a country with porous borders and more than 320 million people living in it.

Call me a xenophobe or whatever, but the U.S. needs to seal off its borders a lot better than they have been doing, to solve the entire immigration problems there.

Canada needs to get tougher too.  In order for Canada’s immigration laws to work, Canadian authorities need to get tougher on those facing deportation and those under order of deportation. Once a deportation order is handed down, the person it was given too should be immediately taken into custody, and upon the earliest possible flight to their homeland they must go. If he or she wants to appeal the order, they can appeal it from there. It’s not as if we don’t have the technology to pull that off.

This appeal’s process is BS too. By the time a deportation order is issued, the person in question has had more than enough time to present his or her case without having to go through the courts to do so. The story they tell during that time better be a very compelling one though. If it isn’t, “See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya.”

Australia has its hands full when it comes to immigration on the world’s larges island.

There’s the boat people, the refugees, the Kiwis, and then there’s people like me, some with families. The Australia Federal Police, the Navy, and custom/border agents do a f**king great job patrolling the border, it’s what happens after that is the problem.

Australia has caught a lot of would-be illegal immigrants of its shores during the past several months, and it’s a problem similar to what the U.S. went through with the Cubans.

Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Sri Lankans.

That’s the group of people immigration authorities are red flagging, and there are a lot of them given Australia’s proximity to those violent and troubled nations. No boat people from Cuba though.

Then there’s North Korea. What do you want to bet that they have a rocket that can reach Sydney or Canberra? However, that’s another kind of threat.

My final thought on this day when the U.S. government is tinkering with, and tweaking its immigration laws is, keep the bad guys out Mr. President and don’t think for one minute that Canada’s immigration laws are going to compliment those of your nation.

And the rest of the world; start closing your borders. Do what the Americans have already started doing, what Australia has been doing very well for quite some time now, and follow their lead when it comes to sealing up borders. The Canadian government should take the same advice.

Seal up the borders. Make those who abuse the privilege of being allowed to enter, and stay in a foreign country, more accountable.

I don’t see anything wrong with deporting somebody for misleading and lying on their immigration applications, or, for deliberately withholding information that would have otherwise prevented them from obtaining any kind of residency status.

I do take issue with the fact that immigrants aren’t paying a higher price for participating in criminal enterprise and acts. As far as I’m concerned, “You do the crime you do the time, and then your ass is booted out of here. I don’t give a flying f**k what it says in your immigration file, and on your papers.”

Funny isn’t it; governments can keep [diseased] animals and people out of their country, but when it comes to those who enter the country under false pretenses, some with the will to hurt, maim, or kill people, the government can’t stop them without citizens get up in arms about it and playing the Human Rights card.

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