Dear Ms Hopkins,

I came across your piece in my English lesson. Funny that, because in your piece, you talk a lot about England. I think that your views on certain immigrants are because of racial hatred. I feel this way because in your article, you only refer to Northern Africa and you refer to Northern African immigrants as “cockroaches”.

These people you categorise as vermin are in reality trying to escape from conflicts and seek refuge, but you wish to threaten them by using gunships and forcing them to return back to their countries. No person is superior to any other person, meaning it is only right to help those in need instead of adding more suffering into their lives. Your attitude is inhumane and is morally wrong. Every human is the same and should never be treated differently.

You don’t have the right to judge those who seek refuge from war-torn countries as you have never experienced what it is like to flee your home country because of war.

In your article you say that Britain should be “more Australian” when it comes to immigrants. To me this sounds as if you think Australia is the only country in the world that is good when it comes to dealing with immigrants. You talked about how Italy was failing on handling the immigrants landing on their shores but you support Australia, a country that threatens and refuses to aid these refugees. The way you speak about Australia and Britain shows that you think they are more superior than other countries. There is a part in your article where you talk about migrants “shelling out benefits like monopoly money”. You are wrong because most migrants are paying taxes and helping the economy. Since 2004 immigrants contributed £5 billion towards the British economy. Between 1995 and 2011 British citizens received more than they contributed in the same 17-year period – amounting to a cost of £591 billion.

You say you feel bad for truck drivers in the UK being fined after they’ve been accused of smuggling in immigrants and you speak about how you care “passionately” about tax payers but there was an internet petition about replacing you with fifty thousand migrants and 61,748 people signed it.

You may support the people of Britain but most of them don’t support you.

 

 

Yours sincerely Justin Liu