Because I remember when it was on the news and this post just reminded me of it

Well neither from you are from nor live in this country, so I don't know why you care so much.

I know, but I was just saying because the post makes it seem like they were.

How do you know they were illegal? From what I've read, they appeared to be asylum seekers

You don't say?

There's a difference between semantic gender and grammatical gender. I don't think any language that uses grammatically gendered nouns apply any attributes of that gender to the word