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Re: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect

Posted By: Don the Monkeyman, on host 24.79.11.42
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 19:54:15
In Reply To: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect posted by samhael on Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 19:26:21:

> Australia has more than 3,600 illegal immigrants every year. I don't know the actual figure, this is the only figure I have, and it's actually how many illegal immigrants come from afghanistan to Australia. Since immigrants (okay, that's too much of a mouthful, I'm calling them boatpeople...) since boatpeople also come from most middle Eastern States, and about half of Asia, I'd guess the number is much higher, but I have no figures.

How is "boatpeople" better than "immigrants" when typing? Both have ten characters, and at least immigrants has a double letter in it, surrounded by a repeated letter.

By the way, Canada has a very similar policy about refugees (the processing and such) but I don't think we have anything like detention camps. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about how our system actually works, so I can't help you, really.

> samhael

Don Monkey

Replies To This Message

Re: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect - Mousie - Wed, 3/27/2002, 09:22:35
- Re: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect - Grishny - Wed, 3/27/2002, 10:21:56
Re: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect - samhael - Tue, 3/26/2002, 20:16:51
- Re: boatpeople --probably politically incorrect - Frum - Tue, 3/26/2002, 20:47:40

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Message:	> > Australia has more than 3,600 illegal immigrants every year. I don't know the actual figure, this is the only figure I have, and it's actually how many illegal immigrants come from afghanistan to Australia. Since immigrants (okay, that's too much of a mouthful, I'm calling them boatpeople...) since boatpeople also come from most middle Eastern States, and about half of Asia, I'd guess the number is much higher, but I have no figures. > > How is "boatpeople" better than "immigrants" when typing? Both have ten characters, and at least immigrants has a double letter in it, surrounded by a repeated letter. > > By the way, Canada has a very similar policy about refugees (the processing and such) but I don't think we have anything like detention camps. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about how our system actually works, so I can't help you, really. > > > samhael > > Don Monkey
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