Australian Border Force and Victoria Police conducting random Visa checks on the streets

[ManWithNoName]

Uhhh what the *? Let's just bring back White Australia and be done with it.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

I don't get it.

That Visa quote is the most random thing. Came out of nowhere. What does visa fraud have anything to do with crime committed in Melbourne CBD?

 

[ManWithNoName]

 

[ag6858]

This is legitimately what happened in a Ukip mocumentary, which was written off as sensationalist and unrealistic about what ukip would do in government. Our government is now a parody of Nigel Farage...

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[Chameleon75]

I know vicpol routinely do visa checks

 

[ManWithNoName]

Hahahahahaha "diversity"

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Errr where did you get this from? I can't find anything about it on google.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Errr where did you get this from? I can't find anything about it on google.

Buzzfeed had it first on Twitter and about a dozen others had it at the same time.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Errr where did you get this from? I can't find anything about it on google.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefa...cking-your-papers-on-the-streets-o#.itVkVldkG

 

[Elroo]

Errr where did you get this from? I can't find anything about it on google.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection website.

ABF joining inter-agency outfit to target crime in Melbourne CBD

28-08-2015 -

This weekend Australian Border Force (ABF) officers will for the first time join forces with a diverse team of transport and enforcement agencies to target crime in the Melbourne Central Business District (CBD) as part of Operation Fortitude.

Tonight and tomorrow evening (Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August 2015) Metro Trains, Yarra Trams, the Sheriff’s Office, Taxi Services Commission and the ABF will join Victoria Police as part of the inter-agency operation.

With a particular focus on people travelling to, from and around the CBD, the group of agencies will work together to support the best interests of Melbournians, targeting everything from anti-social behaviour to outstanding warrants.

ABF Regional Commander Victoria and Tasmania, Don Smith, is proud the ABF will be participating in the operation.

“While the ABF regularly conducts a range of compliance field-work, this is the first time we’ve been involved in an inter-agency operation of this nature and we’re very proud be able to support each of our organisations to achieve our common mission of promoting a secure and cohesive society here in Melbourne.”

“ABF officers will be positioned at various locations around the CBD speaking with any individual we cross paths with,” Mr Smith said.

“You need to be aware of the conditions of your visa; if you commit visa fraud you should know it’s only a matter of time before you’re caught out.”

The inter-agency outfit will continue to work together on an ongoing basis to target crime in and around the Melbourne CBD to make the city a safer place for everyone.

Media opportunity

Operation Fortitude will be launched by representatives from each participating agency at 2pm today (Friday 28 August 2015) on the steps of Flinders Street Railway Station.

 

[MaddAdam]

Happens regularly in Europe, has happened in the US.

Obviously they will be targeting white people with British and Irish accents, because that's your key visa overstayer demographic, especially in the Melb CBD.

 

[MaddAdam]

I don't get it.

That Visa quote is the most random thing. Came out of nowhere. What does visa fraud have anything to do with crime committed in Melbourne CBD?

I'd be tipping there's a lot of illegals or people working grey in the Melbourne CBD economy. Not the suits, but the people pressing their shirts on a six hour turnaround at $4 a shirt, washing the dishes their pho was on. The same people who are packed 6 to a room in the new CBD slums in the sky.

Gangmasters are getting rich off them and these people are working in very unsafe conditions for tantamount to slave wages.

 

[evo]

Hey that's nothing. I got my car surrounded and was aprehended at the airport by 8 Taxi police and fineD $1800 forthe heinous crime against the State of driving Uber.

 

[MaddAdam]

If only there was some sort of way we could have a debate about what kind of country we wanted and how we could change our system of government.

But nah, it has no direct impact on anyone and would cost too much.

 

[ManWithNoName]

If only there was some sort of way we could have a debate about what kind of country we wanted and how we could change our system of government.

But nah, it has no direct impact on anyone and would cost too much.

Because this is clearly solely due to the monarchy and nothing else.

 

[MaddAdam]

Because this is clearly solely due to the monarchy and nothing else.

All the issues are inter-twined. But if you're not happy about the direction the country is taking, then time to think about changing it.

 

[evo]

If only there was some sort of way we could have a debate about what kind of country we wanted and how we could change our system of government.

But nah, it has no direct impact on anyone and would cost too much.

hey, I hope we do become a republic but it won't change this sort of jackbooted shenanigans. Border patrols and protection rackets are the states stock in trade.

 

[ManWithNoName]

All the issues are inter-twined. But if you're not happy about the direction the country is taking, then time to think about changing it.

Yep. If Abbott was President and not PM this wouldn't be happening. You're right.

No doubt the Queen was on the phone this morning demanding it.

Real talk: If you'd like to go ahead and explain how this is inter-twined with the republic debate, feel free.

 

[MaddAdam]

hey, I hope we do become a republic but it won't change this sort of jackbooted shenanigans. Border patrols and protection rackets are the states stock in trade.

Dunno. In Scotland they have long had a different attitude to asylum and immigration than in England. One of the key pitches for YES in the independence campaign was the ability to have an independent immigration and asylum policy that would NOT be as punitive and retrograde as the UK policy.

Change is possible, you just have to want to make it happen. Though for all the hand wringing by some over this, I'm tripping there's plenty more out there who support it.

 

[MaddAdam]

Yep. If Abbott was President and not PM this wouldn't be happening. You're right.

No doubt the Queen was on the phone this morning demanding it.

Real talk: If you'd like to go ahead and explain how this is inter-twined with the republic debate, feel free.

Well, Abbott would still be PM in a republic. The Governor-General hasn't ordered this and neither would a president.

My point is a republic debate offers the opportunity to discuss a huge range of issues and attitudes. I keep making this point and the experience of similar decisions in similar countries like Scotland, Ireland and Canada proves my point in every instance.

Our attitudes to asylum and immigration would be key.

 

[evo]

Dunno. In Scotland they have long had a different attitude to asylum and immigration than in England. One of the key pitches for YES in the independence campaign was the ability to have an independent immigration and asylum policy that would NOT be as punitive and retrograde as the UK policy.

Change is possible, you just have to want to make it happen. Though for all the hand wringing by some over this, I'm tripping there's plenty more out there who support it.

that's because no-one wants to get IN to Scotland!

Just kidding. Weather sucks but it's a good place.

Becoming a Republic wont change s**t in regards to border patrol though. Have you been to Mexican border lately?

 

[ManWithNoName]

Well, Abbott would still be PM in a republic. The Governor-General hasn't ordered this and neither would a president.

My point is a republic debate offers the opportunity to discuss a huge range of issues and attitudes. I keep making this point and the experience of similar decisions in similar countries like Scotland, Ireland and Canada proves my point in every instance.

Our attitudes to asylum and immigration would be key.

There's just as much room and opportunity to discuss these issues now. Right now. We had as much opportunity at the last election too.

 

[Gough]

Dunno. In Scotland they have long had a different attitude to asylum and immigration than in England. One of the key pitches for YES in the independence campaign was the ability to have an independent immigration and asylum policy that would NOT be as punitive and retrograde as the UK policy.

Change is possible, you just have to want to make it happen. Though for all the hand wringing by some over this, I'm tripping there's plenty more out there who support it.

I felt one of the key reasons independence in Scotland was so opposed by certain quarters is that it could have proved a model for a post industrial socialist country, which scares the bejesus out of some.

 

[MaddAdam]

There's just as much room and opportunity to discuss these issues now. Right now. We had as much opportunity at the last election too.

I used to think like that, but the Scottish independence campaign utterly changed my view.

 

[MaddAdam]

I felt one of the key reasons devolution in Scotland was so opposed by certain quarters is that it could have proved a model for a post industrial socialist country, which scares the bejesus out of some.

EXACTLY.

Australia is at a tipping point where we can keep muddling along, too afraid to change anything because "there's no need" and "it'll cost too much" and slowly morph into a country where Johnny Brownskin gets slammed up against the wall at Melbourne Central by armed immigration patrols.

Or we can have a real debate about what we want to be.

(And its worth recalling the post-vote analysis shows that Scots born in Scotland voted in a majority for independence, it was immigrants, almost overwhelmingly English, who voted to stay)