{"id":29274,"date":"2017-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/is-it-time-to-freeze-our-refugee-program\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:00:00","slug":"is-it-time-to-freeze-our-refugee-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/is-it-time-to-freeze-our-refugee-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time To \u201cFreeze\u201d Our Refugee Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt says Australia needs to rethink its refugee program after a plot was foiled to blow up an international flight leaving Sydney.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you were&nbsp;looking at the occupational health and safety with the refugee programs, I would freeze it,\u201d Bolt told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething like two-thirds of the Australians convicted and jailed for terrorism related offences in Australia are form the Muslim Lebanese community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have to note the high imprisonment rate generally for shooting crimes and other gun crimes involving Muslim Lebanese Australians. Has our refugee program put us in grave danger\u2026 should we be taking in so many refugees? This is just crazy. It\u2019s not just the Muslim Lebanese community\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictoria in particular is suffering from an incredible epidemic of crime from Sudanese refugees. We have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour out of the last four terrorist attacks\u2026 are from people we took in as refugees. This is absolutely crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have a look at the unemployment rate as well, the welfare rate as well &#8212; what on earth are we doing?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not see the same problem in Japan, which takes in almost no refugees. I wonder whether we need to have another look at this completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/We-Could-Be-About-To-See-A-First-In-The-AFL-Says-Caro\"><strong>WE COULD BE ABOUT TO SEE A FIRST IN THE AFL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/Huge-Twist-In-Cassie-Sainsbury-Case\"><strong>BIG TWIST IN CASSIE SAINSBURY CASE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt says Australia needs to rethink its refugee program after a plot was foiled to blow up an international flight leaving Sydney. \u201cIf you were&nbsp;looking at the occupational health and safety with the refugee programs, I would freeze it,\u201d Bolt told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Monday. \u201cSomething like two-thirds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is It Time To \u201cFreeze\u201d Our Refugee Program? 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