You’d be forgiven if people here in Australia reacted not only with understandable and totally justifiable anger at US President Donald Trump‘s swiftly enacted executive order which closed America’s borders to immigrants and travellers from several countries the US identifies as sources of “danger” – that also ~extremely coincidentally~ happen to sport Muslim-majority populations – but with a resigned, almost flashback-ish sense of frustration; as if we’ve all seen similar policies enacted from a source much, much closer to home.
“I remember when we came in in 2013 and I was implementing our border protection policy people threw their hands up – and I said I’m doing what I said I would do in the way I said I’d do it – and guess what, I’m now getting the results I said I’d get.”
“And we did that as a government, and we’ve continued that as a government, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to strong border protection policies.”
“The rest of the world would love to have our borders and the way they are secured and the immigration arrangements we have put in place, particularly most recently, over the last three or four years.”
“We’ve got a good history around this. Really, the rest of the world is catching up to Australia.”
Scott, much like a Wikipedia page entitled “Dave from third period science has a tiny dick,” you’re gonna have to cite your sources, buddy.
“Now how the US wants to handle [border protection] is a matter for them. As you say, they’ve had an election, and the president is implementing what he said he would do.”
Fair play to both Morrison and Trump here, that’s 100% correct. Trump promised that he would implement abhorrent, discriminatory immigration policies, and then he went ahead and implemented an abhorrent, discriminatory immigration policy.
