Nothing To Declare.

I love this programme and have enjoyed watching them for years. I first saw it from the Australian one. I love it, that they are strict at customs and the airport. I love the interview rooms, the lies some of them tell and that they have interpreters either on the phones or in person.

Some of them I have now seen many times over the years, and how they try to smuggle food and drugs over the border. Some they say, My Mum packed my bags.” And add, “I don’t know what’s in my suitcase.” People have clever ways of hiding their drugs, this includes shoving it, where the sun does not shine! The thought of then putting that into another person’s body, makes my mind boggle.

I said to Paul yesterday, “I wish drugs didn’t exist, then there would be no lives ruined by them.” He wisely replied, “Then there would be something else.”

In one of the episodes, a woman had done a poo and was refusing to go to the loo, because the drugs that was up her bottom would have come out. But there was no escape, she had to go to a special loo, where there is no flush and the drugs was taken as evidence, and she went to jail.

I DO feel sorry for those who are in dire needs and are in debt, this is their way of getting out of their perils. The drug dealers’ prey on the weak and poor. I said to Paul, “They would not offer a rich person money to do it, because they are rich and don’t need the money like the poor person does.”

If a person has a criminal past, it is Very hard, or impossible to enter Austrillia, no matter how long ago the crime was. That is a shame, for people do change, from the time of their youth.

We watching get to know a bit of their story or life. So, if they have worked, or show signs in their journals or mobile phones that they have worked illegally in the past, or have a fake passport, or have a criminal record. They are informed, “We are thinking of sending you back, to where you have just come from, write on this paper why we should let you into the country.” The airport staff then leaves the room to talk to their manager. But we watching, already know what the outcome will be. The person in the interview room writes with hope. Only to be told, “Sorry you will not be coming into Austrillia today.”

Some get angry, some sigh some cry. For those who cry, it is Very sad. For whatever reason, this was their last and only hope! They wanted a new and better life. Who wouldn’t want that for themselves? It then says, “They were put on the next flight back to where they had just come from that day.”

There is no messing about there, if they are not welcomed, they are not welcomed and there is no more need for resources to be spent on them. I think, that is how it should be really. Those caught with drugs were sent to jail for a very long time, like 7 years or more. If food was smuggled in and not declared, then there would be an instant fine!

A friend from work, wanted to emigrate to Austrillia, she had to make sure she had a job there before they would let her in! Again, that makes perfect sense to me, she is self-sufficient, and not draining the country of money.

Other countries later were shown doing their own version of, Nothing to Declare, I loved the American one, with people walking across the boarders and hiding drugs in their cars.

I watched the English version and was very disappointed! People got away with SO much!

Yesterday I read the news on my phone. A man has thrown a chemical onto a lot of people including children and has caused life changing injuries.

He came here on a lorry in 2016. His was told twice that his asylum is not granted. Then he should have been sent back straight away, the first time. All the info that has happened since he came here, is now listed for all to see, including his name and picture.