bonmot:

...# I wondered about those pesky Taswegians too Dan and you may have a point but ... it's those snappy sleepy sheeps across the Tasman that gives me the heebie-jeebies, most!...#

...They are quite innocuous if wearing "high-heeled gum boots"...trust me!

Dan...

Anthonyve,
You give me the easy questions.

The answer to that is simple. We cannot send back or deport those we cannot confirm where they come from, that is why they destroy their docs.
Because to confirm our suspicions of their nationality would be time consuming and costly, it is far easier to let them in.

The illegals know this and are coached in lieing to our officials.

Those that arrive by air, without valid papers, are sent ASAP back to the place of embarkation.

Banjo:

...#Better to set up a illegals centre on MacQuarie Island...#

Wonder what the diving's like down there. Might pack-up the "dry suit" head down, and apply for a guards job!! Should be worth big "bikkies"!

Dan

According to Wikipedia Pakistan and the U.N have repatriated five million Afghans since 2002, why is our government taking any illegal Afghan migrants at all?
Send the Hazara back, if they don't want to go to Afghanistan the Iranians should have to take them, after all they backed and organised the Hazara insurgents and criminals.
There's a reason Hazara are hated by other Afghans, people need to read up on the post soviet era and find out why.
"Ordinary Afghans" are merely the enemy of our government's enemy, the Australian people owe them nothing.

Suseonline, from your first post:

<< Labor is not to blame. People smugglers, their rickety boats, and asylum seekers themselves are to blame. >>

Labor is VERY much to blame!

The watering down (corruption) of tight border-protection policies by Rudd was one of the stupidest political moves in the history of this country.

Once it became apparent that this move was leading to an increased rate of arrivals it was the DUTY of our government to clamp down on it!

It’s as simple as that. Labor has utterly failed in its duty of care to uphold tight border-protection policies and forego the enormous monetary cost, heartache, death, misery and domestic social upheaval that is now happening…. and to keep our efforts to help refugees to within our formal immigration channels and international aid programs.

From your second post:

<< People smugglers are killing boat people. It's as simple as that. >>

Wow, that really is extraordinary.

You are effectively saying that our government has not contributed significantly to this issue and doesn’t have the responsibility to decisively deal with it. Are you not?

I can’t fathom how you can possibly say that Labor is not to blame!

Well that went down like a lead balloon;

"Government and Opposition sort it without playing games!"

Oh well;

Ka mate Ka mate Ka ora Ka ora
Ka mate Ka mate Ka ora Ka ora
Tenei te tangata puhuru huru
Nana nei I tiki mai
Whakawhiti t era
A upa … ne ka upa … ne
A upane kaupane whiti t era
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Dan, can't say I've seen them doing it in high heeled gum boots, but I trust you :)