Fleas: Asylum Seekers and Fawcett

fleas: SAEED KHAN / AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Robbie Gramer The Washington Post Tues., Feb. 28, 2017 An Australian politician has apologized for comparing refugees and asylum seekers to fleas during a parliamentary hearing, according to Toronto Star. Liberal Senator David Fawcett made the remark while attending a hearing Monday on the country's resource-strained immigration and border department. Australia's Liberal Senator David Fawcett has apologized for comparing refugees and asylum seekers to fleas. I just do question the ethics of nitpicking when your particular group perhaps brought the fleas in the first place, he said to Labor senators. Fawcett apologized for his remarks, saying they were misconstrued. The remark was met not with rebuke, but chuckles, a hear, hear, and a nicely put from fellow Liberal senator Ian Mac Donald. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.