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The return to Rudd: a turn for the worse on asylum seeker policy? : Comments
By Azadeh Dastyari, published 11/7/2013We got an old/new Prime Minister in Kevin Rudd, found out that our first female Prime Minister was quitting politics, and learned what the Foreign Minister Bob Carr thinks of refugees and our international obligations to protect them.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/22/1029114162991.html
The US allows refugees to bring in family, but in this report, they found DNA evidence of widespread fraud (people claiming to be related when they weren't):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121919647430755373.html
Rhian would probably say that it is better to let in a hundred fraudsters than send back one genuine refugee, but in the real world, resources are not unlimited. Britain has spent billions of pounds on asylum seekers, At the same time, there has been scandal after scandal in the news about the National Health Service hospital system, with the problems mostly attributable to underfunding, including cancer patients being forced to wait for surgery until their condition becomes inoperable. Does Britain owe a greater obligation to foreign asylum seekers than to its own citizens?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8668906/NHS-delays-operations-as-it-waits-for-patients-to-die-or-go-private.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/NHS-Cancer-Delays/376574043047
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/18/nhs-cost-cutting-surgeon-warning
I agree with Loudmouth on this. If asylum seekers haven't got travel documents, especially if they must have had travel documents to get through third countries, they should be required to prove their case in other ways or be deported. It is interesting that only about 20% to 30% of asylum seekers who arrive by air are accepted as genuine refugees, The difference is that they are not allowed to board the plane without valid travel documents.