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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I said that if they were simply overstaying a visa in an attempt to avoid going back to an unhappy life, I would feel differently.
It has been speculated that they spent an incredible amount of money (partially backed by interviews with the parents themselves) on obtaining passports, and falsifying their identification.
You can`t say that you are trying to escape poverty when evidence has been presented that you spent $30,000+ on the "escape". Saying they are simply trying to escape unhappiness and poverty... Well, that`s a hard pill for me to swallow at this point.
Sympathy for the girl, who is temporarily losing her parents? Yes. But sympathy for parents who made the choice to blatantly break the law when they apparently had the means to work toward a legal route? And then want to be made an exception, pushing their suffering daughter to beg on their behalf? To the point that it borders on straight out exploitation? And on top of that, a mother who slipped up in an early interview saying that she thought that "If we had a baby who was raised as Japanese only, they would let us stay, so we did."
Nope. Sorry.
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WTF? Your post looks like an opinion piece from FOX news. I think I agree with Josh for the most part.
You're pretty heartless. I really don't know much about this story but you do know that 30,000 is not a lot of money do you?
I mean people smugglers take life savings from people to get them to Australia, often selling everything they own for the voyage. 30000 dollars is not an abnormal amount of money.
The legal route is not an option.. these people are often unskilled and trying to make a better life.
You might call using the daughter for sympathy exploitation... As I said I don't know much about this particular situation... but most of the time these people are desperate to stay.