I am a refugee myself and I escaped with my family at a young age to flee from persecution, violence, and war in Afghanistan. I am not here to “bring in guns and to kill you all” and neither am I here to spread messages to your children about the use of guns. I studied teaching at university and I am helping children learn every day, just like many others. Linda, I don’t blame you for believing that refugees are only here to cause harm and will have no benefit to society whatsoever, as people only perceive refugees based on the false predominant stereotypes often exaggerated in the media. We do not bring crime and terror into countries, and a lot of us do have qualifications. Rejecting refugees into Australia isn’t the solution to overcoming fear and the hatred you hold against them. The stereotypes that exist today only come from a lack of knowledge – people should learn to become more understanding and compassionate because the truth is, refugees are a lot more vulnerable than you think and do benefit society in many ways.
A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. This should not need any further reason for being welcomed into any country - no human being should be forced to live in a war or under persecution. Denying people refuge in their utmost time of need should make you feel ashamed. It is sickening to see the lack of humanity that exists in our world today. In the documentary “A well-founded fear”, the refugees who were locked up in detention centers were lied to by Australian officials and sent back to situations of extreme danger. They were told it was safe to go back, however up to 20 asylum seekers were killed after being sent back. Hundreds and thousands of innocent lives are taken away, yet no one wants to help because refugees could “potentially” hurt and kill your family despite being defenseless and only seeking protection
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Australia is nothing if it weren't for immigrants. As a multicultural nation, we have a duty to care. We are all human and if we ignore these people crying for help, then that would make us heartless. Refugees’ lives have been destroyed by acts of terrorism - whether state-sponsored or by extremist groups. This is a time to stand with victims of this horrifying violence, not foster malicious falsehoods.
Refugees work a lot harder than the average citizen. A report published in June 2017 by researchers at the U.S.’s National Bureau of Economic Research found that despite having relatively lower levels of educational attainment and language skills, refugees work at higher rates than “native” citizens within a country. The same study also reported that on average refugees pay back $20,000 more in taxes than they receive in benefits, resulting in a net profit of $20,000 per refugee for your country.
Accepting more refugees into Australia can bring new talents to the labor force. Immigrants can bring new customs to a nation that can make its culture richer.
For example, Steve Jobs' father was a Syrian immigrant. Without open borders, we would have never had the iPhone, or the Apple computer. Diversity is an asset, and we benefit as a culture from having a tolerant, dynamic society.
Furthermore, Al Murderis is an Australian surgeon who fled as a refugee from Iraq in 1999. The refugee doctor is based in Sydney and is the world’s leading authority in osteointegration, a cutting-edge procedure that offers amputees a superior alternative to the traditional socket prosthesis. Al Murderis and many other refugees are changing lives every day. Accepting more refugees into Australia will open up greater opportunities for people to work, leading to more ideas, an increase in skills, and a specialized workforce.
The documentary “A well-founded Fear” follows the work of a small group of Australians who have made a mission to find the asylum seekers Australia has rejected. It accurately represents how much the people in Afghanistan are suffering from violence and war. The world thinks people are safe when they’re sent back to their home countries when the reality is in fact, families are destroyed and the refugees Australia rejected are again tortured and harassed.
According to the FBI, 94% of terrorist attacks carried out in the United States from 1980 to 2005 have been by non-Muslims. As a matter of fact, Americans were more likely to be killed by a toddler in 2013 than they were by a refugee or a so-called “Muslim terrorist”. So are we really as violent as the media shows us to be? Recently, there had been a terrorist attack in Christchurch in New Zealand. The 28-year-old man killed 50 innocent lives at a mosque, describing his reasons as to “directly reduce immigration rates” and to “show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands”. The terrorist was an Australian citizen. Terrorism does not belong to any religion, and refugees are much more vulnerable than how the media portrays them. Terrorists usually travel by plane, not by leaky faulty boats that usually end up nowhere
The extreme prejudice held against us is unacceptable, as no one should be treated less for being different or for having different beliefs. How would you feel being in our position? Where people are against you and scared because you are most likely a “terrorist” when the truth is, you are completely naïve and defenseless? No one should live in oppression and feel unsafe after escaping from their war-torn countries only to be discriminated against and threatened to leave. Everyone has the right to seek asylum from persecution.
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