As the Clash might say: should they stay or should they go?

They are just four of many such examples, but thanks to their living situation their case has divided Australia this week. Former Tamil boat people and now residents of Biloela, Queensland, parents Priya and Nadesalingam, from Sri Lanka, and their four- and two-year-old daughters, Kopika and Tharunicaa, who were both born here, are facing imminent deportation on the grounds that they've produced inadequate evidence of their refugee status. Priya and Nadesalingam both arrived Down Under in 2013 and were detained on Christmas Island for months before being freed on bridging visas, which let the holder stay in the community while applying for another visa.

The Morrison Government, particularly Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, have repeatedly stated they will not protect them from deportation, a position which has inspired public opposition from the Greens and even two prominent other figures of the right, former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and broadcaster Alan Jones. 

Now, I don't know the facts about their legal efforts (or those of the people representing them) and so I don't think I should take a side here. This post is meant just as neutral commentary. But my heart still goes out to these four, and I will say this: with Australia's ongoing racism problem, and Sri Lanka's rampant poverty, I believe they'll be damned if they stay here and damned if they don't. Whatever their case's outcome, I hope I'm disproven there.