Nice try, Iben but that's refering to the illegal trafficking of human smuggling.....where many drown attempting to get here...and the smugglers get paid whether they make it or not.

Australia is particularly multi-cultural....great example is that Melbourne has the world's third largest population/city of Greeks....and that includes Greece.

Currently 28% of the population was not born in Australia, which compares to 13.5% of the same for the US.

No country has totally clean hands.  Not one.  Some have cleaner hands than others, but all are grimy to varying degree.  The 'high horse' is only high relative to the others.

I have known four men who immigrated from the US to Australia legally.
One had a skill Australia wanted and brought a wife with him.
One married an Australian women and that is how he got in.
One was a business man with money and a family who brought in his business.
One had money and was building a house there and married an Australian women.
They told me Australia doesn't just let anybody walk in, they need a good reason to let you in.
That was my personal experience with this subject.
I think Australia has a smart immigration policy we in the US should look at.
And as a side note,
Do we in the US want Tim Kaine as president?

Never had any friends relocate to the outback, but know some who have gone to Europe. Its no joke trying to stay there, unlike the US. In the Netherlands, you have to learn the language and meet many requirements before you can be considered. The best way is to be classified as a businessman, or other means which are expensive and time consuming. In the US, anyone can just samba across the Rio Grande and become untouchable. We can't break up family's with cruel heartlessness! and if anyone tries to stop them they are racists and xenophobes.

Question:
How many Anthony Weiners AKA carlos dangers could be working
in the Clinton Administration if Hillary
wins the election?

So.....

 

The KKK endorses Trump.

 

Kinda says it all, really.

 

Poor little dweebs must have been wetting their pants the past 8 years....

Jafo, do you really believe this stuff. Its disappointing if you do because you have such a high level of intelligence. I've seen reports that some backwoods KKK guy was all excited about Clinton, but I dismissed it as irrelevant, because it is. I don't follow the KKK and could hardly care what these irrelevant people think as they are never really seen or heard from in any significant way. Its really just a campaign tactic ripped from the same Goldwater/LBJ playbook that Clinton is running. I think it was the first time that kind of demagoguery was used and the commercial still exists for historical analysis. That was the 60's. Actually, Clinton has used  the whole Goldwater strategy in its entirety, even tossing in the Daisy girl theme of a madman with his finger on the button seeing some religious vision of sending us all into the darkness. In reality, there is more evidence and more to fear from Clinton's warmongering than Trump. She keeps saber rattling with nuclear armed Russia. They have no respect for her and she has nothing but contempt for them after they made a laughing stock of her with the "reset" button. She keeps saying she wants to double down on her disastrous Syria policy and set up no fly zones against Russia, so who is more likely to start WWIII? Just something to chew on.

Goldwater KKK ad.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hcpedQmOyo

Sadly, being 8000 miles away from the US and we still have to endure the bullshit that is the US Presidential Elections....and what makes it over here as 'news' means the rest of the World outside of the US is only going to Laugh if/when Trump is elected.  For many it will just reinforce established opinions regarding just how parochial and insular the US really is.

Possibly a more self-conscious entity might fantasize that prohibiting such factions as the KKK might actually be seen as a 'good thing'.

Instead other countries [Oz included] are getting all Fascist/Nationalist in the name of 'Pride'. 

Sure...you ONLY have 13.5% of population not born in the US so it's probably meaningless to you.....but places like Oz with 28% of the population actual Immigrants [not born here] maybe we're a little more aware [mostly] that creatures in white pointy hats are as bad as any home-grown extremist/terrorist with their innate anti-social behavior.

I know it's a fact no-one in the US ever liked Obama...and refused to admit they'd ever voted for him [if they did] but to the entire rest of the world he's been seen as better than just about any President since Kennedy.

It wasn't just 'Black America' who may have felt some form of 'relevance' finally, but the World didn't feel like 'that super-power' was just the Yang to the USSR's Ying.

 

So....the News outside of the US has lines like..."KKK endorses Trump" and "Putin endorses Trump" at which stage we say "Fuck Trump".

So....Clinton is a putz with emails....whoopee-do.

If I were voting I'd vote for the lesser of 2 idiots.

 

Wasn't it trump who said he could shoot someone in New York City and not lose any votes.....some-such infantile tripe.

I really don't care directly who ends up as Pres...provided they cease and desist fucking people outside their borders.  There's enough 'citizens' to oppress without going off-site....

God knows whose fault it was [probably the electoral system] that sees the only 2 options a dick-head and a fuck-wit.  Either way the US pop is screwed.

It's living proof the Pres election system needs to be dragged screaming into a generation your grandparents might remember.

What you currently have patently fails.

In 300 million people even the law of averages means you must be able to find at least one or two people who have a brain, so how the hell did you end up with the junk you got now?...

 

I actually like our compulsory voting requirement....you're fined if you fail to cast a vote.

The 'right' to vote is enforced.

That'd be a start.  And what is it that in 7 or so states it's actually legal to vote more than once?  How the hell does that work?

Or rather...how the hell isn't that a recipe for abuse?

Yes, it's kind of a NY attitude thing which is something he better hold off on should he be elected. Having been born and raised in NY, its a sarcasm that I understand, but people in other parts of the country may not Its pretty simple for me... Trump Vs. Hillary Clinton. Of the 2, I find Trump far more in line with my beliefs and I don't fi9nd him completely revolting and unfit as I do Clinton. So its a no brainer for me when presented with the choice. I could borrow the brain of a mentally handicapped man and still arrive at the same decision   So we either get Clinton, who will be mired in scandal and impeached with no hope of any future, or we can have the possible hope for a decent Government by giving Trump a chance. I know after a few weeks you will come around and start lovin the guy, Jafo  

Lets say that you don't like either one of the candidates.
Then you could default to policies.
One of those would be safety of US inner government data,
which Hillary has proven she can't keep safe.
This could pose a threat to the safety of anyone in the world
and is one down side of the new digital universe.