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Originally Posted by paraclete

Here's a thought, we feel about america the way this person feels about Australia
Johnny Depp: American explains why we should let him keep the dogs

We don't let drips like Depp flaunt our laws, you should be grateful we sent you some of our stars but we note they keep coming back so america is a good place to earn money but not to stay

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What are you afraid of ? that his dingos will eat your baby ?

No we have our own dingo's for that, no we don't want them to get loose and breed with the dingos and we have these miniture aggressive muts running around, besides where they come from there are these undesirable diseases, rabbies, foot in mouth disease to mention two. You have to see the humour in this as well as the pathos, we fight a never ending war against invasive species, whether they be human, or animal or in this case both. All we ever ask is you respect the law and do the paper work right. What will come out of this is no private jet will be allowed to land outside a major airport and all passengers will go through the normal airport customs procedure rather than the more trustfull relationship we have allowed in the past. You have your homeland security, we have ours, you chase terrorists we chase terriers

I am with para on this. I read the article today in my paper. Australia did eradicate rabies, by the way. Why would they want it back. Those little terriers could have brought any canine disease with them. They had no papers at all. Depp just smuggled them in without regard.

Yes and that makes him a law breaker and an undesirable, but we are used to a certain arrogance that eminates from northern climes. You see he has played a pirate too long and he spends too much time in character

Depp's cloak and dagger exit

And another one bites the dust, or so it seems. Respect for law was never a hollywood strong suit but I don't doubt there is an agent or assistant about to be fired after Depp has incurred so much trouble about this dog gone incident. The studio must be fuming as the absence of their star would be send costs through the roof and to think that if the dogs had undergone a ten day quarantine detention in the first place all this could have been avoided long ago

I can understand your reluctance to have Yorkshire Terriers intermingling with your dingos .

Tom we have a reluctance to have any dogs mingling with our dingos in some states german shepards are specifically targeted to avoid the rise of a larger predator. You know as well as I do this is about the importation of exotic canine diseases and the Depps didn't even have the common sense to keep the mutts isolated, they took them to a grooming parlour where they may have mingled with other animals. You also know this is about a certain type of arrogance. Our border people do a great deal to keep exotic diseases out of this country

wish we had a sense of urgency about border issues.

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Originally Posted by tomder55

wish we had a sense of urgency about border issues.

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Yes well we all handle things differently, we dealt with the boats and now others have the same problem because they didn't take action. We dealt with the issue of illegal entry, come illegally and you cannot be resettled here, others choose to play the let's chase them after they get here game. We work very hard to stem the tide of drugs, not sure we are winning there, but we don't have the cocaine problem