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Illegal hort worker crackdown

26 Feb, 2010 09:54 AM
THE Immigration Department has been cracking down on illegal workers with a number working in the horticulture industry intercepted this month.

Illegal workers have been found by compliance officers in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia during February with many overstaying their visas.

This week 14 workers - five women and seven men – from Indonesia were intercepted at Stanthorpe, Queensland.

Twelve of the workers were transferred to detention accommodation in Brisbane and two granted bridging visas, but all will leave Australia.

On February 11, six Malaysian nationals were found to be in breach of their visas and working in horticultural operation in north Perth.

They are now in detention and will be removed from Australia.

Earlier in the month workers were removed from Mildura after compliance officers acted on community information regarding illegal workers.

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Mean time the ships keep coming in and Rudd's giving them the key to the city - with many going straight into public houses dental and all health paid for and onto welfare. At least these other poor buggers are growing some food which there's a world wide shortage of. Sometimes you have to wonder ah. So if we are sending people who are willing to work in the bush home while Aussie shun their noses at farm jobs- does this mean Rudd will send these ship people out onto the land and give them a shovel to build Australia as our grandfathers did? If we don't get some of these migrants out to regional areas to work how are we gunna keep em or anybody else in food? Leave the ones working in the bush alone and boot out some of these bludging on welfare and breeding families of 14 kids for us Aussies to pay for!
Posted by PM In waiting, 2/03/2010 4:57:25 AM, on Queensland Country Life

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