Wholeheartedly share Yabby's view here.

A lot of people are afraid of boat people. Julius Caesar, Willian the Conqueror, Christoper Columbus, the Pilgrim Fathers and of course our very own First Fleet all carried boat people.
All the boat people killed off large numbers of the indiginous populations by warfare and/or introduced dideases. Having stolen the land they then proceeded to trash the land by chopping down the forests, polluting the waterways and in Australia turning large areas into salt.

Some good news from the UNHCR

http://www.unhcr.org/4c657ec69.html

Look forward to reports that Tamils granted permanent residence here and those in detention are also planning to return home.

But maybe the new lifestyle is too good here for them to contemplate that.

Peace,
You blokes never learn. The simple reason that we do not like the boat people is that we do not like being conned and do not want gate crashers. Surely that is not hard to comprehend