Perhaps someone can help me:

* Australia has an annual quota for a refugee intake, I think it's currently 14,000 ? Compare that with New Zealand's six hundred;

* there are 68 million refugees in the world. Surely a sizeable portion of those have filled out all the right forms to be selected to come to Australia, then sat and waited, penniless in some ghastly desert camp. And waited. And waited. I talked to a lovely, bright and bubbly African woman who had spent eighteen years in a camp in Guinea waiting.

* My puzzlement is: if people come here illegally, if they jump the long, long queue, would they be counted in the annual allocation ? So, if we accepted those who have been able to afford to make the payments to officials and smugglers, would they displace some of those poor buggers (funny, I don't see any bleeding hearts thinking of them) and make them wait another year ? And wait ? And wait ?

* so would relatively wealthy 'refugees' have a way to get preference over those poor buggers with nothing, stuck in their desert camps ? Waiting ? And waiting ?

Those who try to come here illegally shouldn't be mistreated of course: they could be sent back to their departure points, asked politely to fill out all the right form and wait their proper turn. And wait. And wait. You know ? like those poor buggers with nothing, in desert camps ?

Joe

Joe this has been remarked on many times about these line jumpers. The resident soft left think we have to acceded to any blackmail and so they have to be let in.
Think of Iranians flying into muslim Malaysia because they will not refuse any muslim. They then go over to Indonesia and pay for a boat, or used to. Then on to Christmas Island and we "HAVE" to take them. They were safe in Iran but lied and said they were not. Had refuge in muslim Malaysia but who wants to live in that muslim hell hole. Then on to another muslim country and on to Atheist Australia and we are the bad guys?
Believe me if the current idiot politicians do not stop this nonsense then we will vote in someone who will.