Tag Archives: Refugees

Life on Nauru is better than life in the United States, at least according to 40 of the 300 refugees who left the island nation for resettlement in the US. According to The Australian, when the refugees discovered life in the United States was not as easy as they hoped, they contacted Nauru’s Department of Justice and Border Protection asking to return to the island. “Refugee life on Nauru can include holidays in Fiji, business ownership, free housing and healthcare and jobs in government departments and at the local hospital, The Australian was told.” It sounds like all they’re fleeing…

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Peta Credlin: “If Nauru is, as we’re constantly told, a hellhole of rampant illness and people on the edge of suicide, it’s surprising isn’t it then that 71 of these people don’t want to live for a new life in the U.S. “Here are refugees who supposedly can’t go back home, they’ve been stuck in this alleged nightmare, no-man’s land for five years, yet they won’t go to America. “For people who are supposed to be desperate, they’re incredibly picky about which safe new first-world country they’ll accept… “According to [the] Daily Telegraph, these refugees knocked back the United States…

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More than 70 asylum seekers on Nauru have turned down offers to resettle in the United States after learning they would have to work rather than receive government handouts and welfare. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton told The Daily Telegraph, these people are not genuine refugees. “Reports have come back to people on Nauru that it’s all a bit financially tight there because you have to get a job and because there’s no welfare there,” he said. I for one, think Australia ought to adopt the Apostle Paul’s approach in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “If anyone is not willing to work, let him…

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