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The classic move: blaming migrants

By David Hale - posted Friday, 15 May 2020

None of those changes may quite get the votes. So how about something else added to the list?

A preamble perhaps at the top of my list, one that states that migrants should not come to a country. Steal jobs that could be done by locals, nor congest roads as they drive about, and should stay in their own country, and work to improve their own countries, or something to the effect.

Yet, I am not thinking of the migrants that come here. I am thinking of the Australians that go overseas and take jobs from locals.

It seems that it is okay when we do it, but not okay when people want to come here.

How about we remove that preamble and add a new one. How about it reads, stop blaming migrants for all problems.

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David Hale is an Anglican University Lay Chaplain, staff worker for the Australian Student Christian Movement and a member of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.