In this vast land of Australia, there is a mystical area where everyone can smell the color change and look forward to it.
And the immigrant circle also has its legend all the time, because most of the immigrants who have been there are said to have never returned.
Its name, Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (Villawood immigration detention center)!
This is the detention of "black people" who have no legal status in Australia and are about to be repatriated, or who are struggling to apply for an extension of repatriation and sign over the bridge.
Some people say that this is the "highest prison" for Australian tribesmen, and some even say that the facilities here are dilapidated and simply unfit for human habitation. However, for various reasons, the "true face" of this immigration detention centre is "true." Few people know.
However, recently, a Chinese elder brother was taken to the Villawood immigration detention center, lived before and after a few days, came out and posted on the online forum: in fact, the real situation of Villawood is better than most people think!
(photo source: Tianya)
So what does the real Villawood immigration detention center look like?
(photo source: Web)
1. "Life in prison."
The "ausikiwi" man said he was taken to a 30-square-meter cell in a detention centre on the night of February 6, with a single bed and a separate bathroom.
After talking to the staff of the Repatriation Centre, they were given the opportunity to stay in the detention centre for seven working days and await a decision to postpone the repatriation.
So the old man began to live in his detention center.
To his surprise, the detention centre was surrounded by barbed wire, but the conditions were surprisingly good:
"villawood Immigration Detention Centre covers an area of about 500 mu, which is divided into male apartment area. The girls' apartment area.
A round lawn playground. The basketball court Football field Two canteens. The gym. An indoor playground. Coffee shop. The library. The barber's room. The store will. The guest hall and other facilities are available.
These facilities are sufficient to provide living services for 300 to 500 people. Apart from the lack of freedom of access, the infrastructure is comparable to that of a first-class university.
The apartment dormitory is a suite with an area of about 200 square meters, a living room of 60 square meters, a kitchen, six small bedrooms, two bathrooms and two bathrooms, with air conditioning in the room. Television. Refrigerator。 Microwave oven. Washing machine。 Telephone facilities, etc.
Each bedroom upper and lower bunk can live 2 people, inside has wardrobe, desk chair and so on furniture. "
The editor looked at the photos of the detention center and the map of the website.
Make sure what the old man said may be true.
(photo source: www.humanrights.gov.au)
The editor went on to read, feeling that the elder brother's "life in prison", is really not a general nourishment.
The days in immigration detention centres are much the same every day, with little change.
For sports lovers, you can play football on the round lawn. Do aerobics. Play basketball on the basketball court or football field, or go to the gym to exercise.
But I'm not interested in prison sports.
(gym in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, photo source: humanrights.gov.au)
What I like to do is to read. Reading newspapers and surfing the Internet.
Breakfast starts at 7:30 every morning. Breakfast food is very simple, usually 2 boxes of honey. One fruit. Two eggs. Plus self-picked a little bit like domestic oil tea grain cereal.
I like to take a glass of milk and add a box of honey, microwave it for a minute and a half, and then combine the cereal for breakfast.
Lunch time at 12:30, my roommate and I went to the cafeteria. The restaurant was followed by dozens. Hundreds of people lined up for dinner. There's air conditioning in the restaurant and it's cool.
The queue was moving forward, and as I moved next to the cooler, I took a disposable foam glass and picked up a red juice drink. There are usually two members of the staff at the time of the meal.
The first staff member served cold food, including vegetarian food. Dessert。 Fruit, etc. I usually want cucumbers. Tomatoes。 Beans.
The second worker had hot food, including chicken. Beef and Mutton。 fish。 Potato, corn, etc. I prefer beef, mutton and fish.
After picking up the meal, everyone sat down to the table in good order and began to eat.
There are all kinds of colors and languages in the restaurant from China. Korea. Viet Nam India Malay. Germany。 Britain and other dozens of different countries, men and women eat together, we all get along with each other. It's fun and mellow.
After the meal, I like to take another glass of juice and walk out of the restaurant.
Then go to the 500-square-meter lounge outside the restaurant and sit down and slowly taste the sweetness of the juice. At the same time, you can also chat with cellmates from other countries and regions in the rest area.
It feels very similar to the university canteen, but obviously more abundant than the university canteen.
In addition, the elder brother also said that he still has an hour to go online every day!
"there is an Internet cafe equipped with more than 30 computers in the immigration detention center. You can surf the Internet for an hour at a time.
I like to go to this Internet cafe to browse the information online. In the hot summer, sit in an Internet cafe and browse the web and get news from the outside. "
No wonder the editor's colleagues, as they edited the articles, came together and said:
"how to live and eat better than me," and then left angrily.
2. The "cellmates" in the detention cente
After all, the detention center is a comfortable environment, the old man also spent a lot of space to introduce his cellmates.
In contrast to what most people think is the case of poorly-spoken immigrants in detention centres, or the capture of threat by "old cellmates", the brother's cellmate, a friendly Vietnamese:
Every day a professional cleaner cleans the apartment. Only three of the apartments I live in are Chinese, and the other seven or eight roommates are Vietnamese.
The Vietnamese are friendly to our Chinese, who like to play cards in the dormitory.
However, because of the interrelatedness of the language, the old man understood the helplessness of many Chinese:
For example, the brother's roommate, who has been in Australia for 10 years, is unfortunately caught in gambling's bad habits:
The old man is very talkative, 1.8 meters tall, the body is also very strong. He told me that his surname Xu, from Yantai, Shandong Province, 66 years old, he spent more than 100,000 yuan to help through the agency to come to Australia, has been in Australia for 10 years.
He said he made A $270 a day when he worked as a bricklaying worker at the construction site before he came in.
He has made a lot of money in Australia over the years, but most of his hard-earned money is lost at casino because of gambling.
Another student who impressed the old man was that he didn't have the money to work in Australia until his visa expired:
I was impressed by a 22-year-old boy from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. He was dark-skinned, of medium build, with a small flat head.
He told me that he had been in Australia for five years, and that he first came to study in the UTS language class, and then started working on the gyprock (gypsum board) project because he couldn't afford to study, and he could earn more than A $600 a day at the most.
He was particularly impressed by the experience of a Fujian elder sister, who was repatriated in the evening of New Year's Eve:
A girl named "Yuyun" from Fuqing, Fujian, told me that she had spent three hundred and twenty thousand of her time working in Australia three months ago through an agency.
Unfortunately, her boss was reported, immigration and customs officers surrounded the factory, and employers and workers with expired visas were arrested in immigration detention centres. The boss is also from Fujian, where his e-commerce business sells more than A $10, 000 a day.
Unexpectedly, this time along with the boss's son was also arrested in immigration detention centre. The boss also comforted her not to be afraid. The immigration detention center was like a four-star hotel with food and drink.
New Year's Eve, Yuyun was arranged by the Immigration Board flight back to the country. The dream of a 30-something woman working in Australia to become rich has since come to naught.
After living in an immigration detention center for two weeks, the old man also met Chinese black people from all over China, but "the Australian dream is broken." he said, "it is estimated that 80% of the people who enter immigration detention centres are driving while they are driving. After being intercepted and checked by the police, he found that his visa had expired, and he was arrested.
In addition, some people enter immigration detention centres for a strange reason, but it boils down to the fact that visas expired and were seized by Australian police and sent in.
Therefore, I am here to remind those friends who still stay in Australia with expired visas to stay away from the police, and to be careful of your neighbors' reporting. "
Although the old man's admonition is not true or false, it is true that Australia's crackdown on the black people is no longer worse than that of the United States now, judging from the fact that the old man did not get a bridge visa successfully and was repatriated to the United States.
When reading this article, the editor originally wanted to hold the mentality of "strange hunting", but everything in the detention center really refreshed the editor's values.
I have to say, Australia's attitude towards the black people is still more human. At least all aspects of life are considered and taken care of. In the end, although it will still be difficult and difficult for the black people, it is also a matter of benevolence.
The so-called "black people live better in detention centres than ordinary immigrants" is a joke; after all, living in one place without fear is more important than any good living conditions.
It is also hoped that all readers of this article will never "test" Australia's immigration repatriation system and live safely in Australia.