Oh yea you guys like the Singapore shiitte huh. OK here is more - a lot more LOL.
My cousin has just moved there after living in NYC for 20yrs. Draconian doesn't even come close to the shopping mall called Singapore.
They haven't closed down anything - they remain open for shopping, I mean business.
Now Singapore grants birthright citizenship if - 1 parent is a citizen and the child is born in wedlock. Now wouldn't that be fantastic in the US.
Singapore has fantastic schools that are free. But non citizens can not attend them. Private schools for non citizens cost 30K a year at a minimum and those suck. My cousin pays 50K per child for a IB type program for her 2 kids.
Singapore has a fantastic healthcare system. Its Free. For citizens, non citizens can not access them. They either have to go private or without.
Singapore has "excellent" state owned media - 7 TV and 14 radio stations. And its illegal to own a satellite dish LOL.
Singapore has a big guest worker program. Its illegal to hire any one without papers, and you want domestic help, you need to provide them a room as well as state controlled pay and treatment. You can not get your family to help, because non citizens are only allowed to visit 1 month per year. As in, want your parents to help with baby sitting - not for more than 1 month a year, and if you get rid of the govt approved help for that month you might not be able to get the help when your parents leave in a month.
They have a good reporting system, anyone you suspect may be violating some law can be easily reported and they will be investigated. In any traffic or any other stop you will be asked for all papers, including legal status. At any point of service you will be asked for papers.
The think that annoyed my brother the most is, if you buy a bike/car, the initial tax and registration costs almost as much as the car. You cant buy it and take it out of the country without these papers.
Even Singapore citizens think taxes are far too high, but the non citizen expenses are simply oppressive beyond being simply too high.
I am nearly certain Australia doesn't have the same media and political BS that Singapore does but famously Australia dropped leaflets recently over parts of Sri Lanka to let them know if they turn up illegally to Australia they will be thrown out.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/18/home-affairs-created-f... Why horoscopes you ask ???? Because Sri Lankans are deeply into numerology and horoscopes (weirdly - its not the same zodiac as the leaflet showed - clueless LOL)
And for asylum seekers, Australia implemented - this beauty -
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28189316Not even sent back, they handed them to the same people the asylym seekers were running from. LOL.
Singapore is a clear example of a police state. They make Nazi Germany look like kindergardners. Generally Singapore citizens know that violators of the system cost them $$$ and are happy to report people because these activities make it a level playing field and lowers their annoyingly high taxes.
Singapore will let you in regardless of skill level, they will just rob you blind on top of the ridiculous taxes.
Australia is blessed with a massive barrier to entry called the pacific ocean, but its beyond draconian what they do when someone shows there without papers, and they have the gall to critique the US ??? Total BS.
PS: OMG this shiietet gets better and better doesn't it.
Prior to 20 August 1986, almost anyone born inside Australia, no matter what visa they held, became an Australian Citizen. ... If they are born outside Australia, they can only be Australian if one parent is a Citizen. Full birthright citizenship in Australia effectively ended on 20 August 1986
Cool.
Srinath.