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Amazon is aiding in mass deportations
dpareja:
https://truthout.org/audio/how-amazon-cooperates-with-trumps-deportation-machine/
Amazon is working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to aid in deportations, and at least one group, Movimiento Cosecha, is calling for a complete boycott of them.
Art Vandelay:
So this is more of the old "deporting illegal immigrants is racist" chestnut that you Americanos are so fond of, is it?
dpareja:
--- Quote ---The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government pf the Commonwealth with respect to:...
The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: Edmund Barton ---...I entertain a strong opinion that the moment the Commonwealth obtains any legislative power at all it should have the power to regulate the affairs of the people of coloured or inferior races who are in the Commonwealth.
--- End quote ---
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22constitution%2Fconventions%2F1898-1096%22
--- Quote from: Quick and Garran ---[This sub-section] enables the Parliament to deal with the people of any alien race after they have entered the Commonwealth; to localise them within defined areas, to restrict their migration, to confine them to certain occupations, or to give them special protection and secure their return after a certain period to the country whence they came.
--- End quote ---
https://archive.org/stream/annotatedconstit00quicuoft#page/622
EDIT: Oh, and Barton was the first Prime Minister of Australia. So, yeah.
Tolpuddle Martyr:
--- Quote from: Art Vandelay on July 30, 2018, 01:05:53 am ---So this is more of the old "deporting illegal immigrants is racist" chestnut that you Americanos are so fond of, is it?
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All depends on if there is racist intent behind it. The majority of illegal immigrants in Australia who get the short end of the stick are asylum seekers, nonwhite and New Zealanders many of whom are Maori, Tongan and Samoan-also non white.
dpareja:
--- Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on July 30, 2018, 02:25:58 am ---
--- Quote from: Art Vandelay on July 30, 2018, 01:05:53 am ---So this is more of the old "deporting illegal immigrants is racist" chestnut that you Americanos are so fond of, is it?
--- End quote ---
All depends on if there is racist intent behind it. The majority of illegal immigrants in Australia who get the short end of the stick are asylum seekers, nonwhite and New Zealanders many of whom are Maori, Tongan and Samoan-also non white.
--- End quote ---
It's almost like there's still some "White Australia" mentality lingering...
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