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Get tough or prepare for a flood : Comments

By Philip Ruddock, published 15/10/2009

While all governments proclaim that they determine who enters and settles in Australia, they should be judged by their record rather than their rhetoric.

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How do you identify a “legitimate asylum seeker”?

By the fact that they are granted a refugee visa only after going through due process to prove their claim.

Versus

The economic opportunists who float here on the currents, lacking a visa or usually other documents which would prove the fraudulence of their claim

Australia has no obligation to accept economic opportunists who try to avoid proper process and processing.

The illegal action, in attempting to circumvent Australia’s migration laws, is patent evidence of bad character and should warrant expulsion and a life ban on ever getting a visa into Australia.

That, in a nutshell is what needs to happen.

No whining
No sentimental dross
No exceptions
Posted by Col Rouge, Friday, 23 October 2009 7:16:53 AM
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Cannot find any evidence at all that Sir Lankans are denied passports unless they are involved in LTTE. Can this be confirmed please? Asked a few times now. It appears the financing of human rights atrocities has been by those given refugee status in western nations. The same financing is used for people movements and a strong western network of LTTE sympathisers has emerged by exploiting the refugee process. So my intial concern that Sri Lankan rage at the claims made by asylum seekers does seem to have some merit. Even though there are documented human rights failings on behalf of the Sri Lankan government these pale into insignificance to those committed by members of the LTTE - who appear the only group denied a passport due to their status as a registered terrorist organisation.

The largest majority of Sri Lankan asylum seekers have done so with documentation, passport and the use of airlines. Why are some denied passport? This does not make sense.
Posted by TheMissus, Friday, 23 October 2009 8:30:14 AM
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Interesting to see the enormous number of hostile posts.

It makes me think that Phillip Ruddock has touched a raw nerve.
When you look at what the country is facing in the future, soil
degregation, water shortages, food supply problems and energy depletion
I think it is time to stop all immigration.

Immigration is rapidly reaching the deckchairs on the Titanic stage.
Shuffling people around will not be the solution, the world's
population has to decrease starting yesterday.
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 23 October 2009 10:26:09 AM
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Bazz: << Interesting to see the enormous number of hostile posts.

It makes me think that Phillip Ruddock has touched a raw nerve. >>

Rather, Ruddock's brought his trusty dog-whistle out and the same old mutts have come baying and salivating out of their kennels.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Friday, 23 October 2009 10:44:04 AM
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*and the same old mutts*

Sheesh, some of those mutts seem quite smart to me, as some mutts
are. Certainly alot smarter then our bleeding heart ostriches,
with their heads firmly stuck in the sand, to avoid the real world.

None of them seemingly are prepared to address the clear unfairness
of our present refugee selection process, of a boat race paying
smugglers to decide who comes in first. Never mind the millions
of others, poorer and in much worse circumstances. None of them
seemingly want to address the obvious ways that the present system
can be rorted.

So keep your head in the sand CJ, for those mutts around you are
making you look rather stupid.
Posted by Yabby, Friday, 23 October 2009 2:02:21 PM
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Some of you may be interested in the latest report of the Human Rights Commission on conditions on Christmas Island. It's available at

www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/immigration/idc2009_xmas_island.html

For the life of me, I can't see how the unauthorised arrival of asylum seekers is evidence of bad faith. Getting oneself and one's family to safety without harming others is hardly immoral. If some others are kept longer in refugee camps as a result, that's the fault of the Australian Government. And until those camps are made safe, and their residents are ensured of quidk processing, it is not reasonable to expect people to stay there.
Posted by ozbib, Friday, 23 October 2009 5:37:43 PM
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