There is no doubt the coalition's border protection policy has had resounding success, with few boats getting through. Moreover far less of these poor buggers have drowned at the hands of these unscrupulous people smugglers ? That doesn't account for the number who enter Oz legitimately through our Airports, intentionally overstaying their visas and simply disappearing into the larger Australian community ?

Somehow, I don't believe we could teach any European Nations anything about securing each of their borders, with this ridiculous EC that's been in place for the last forty odd years ? Apparently, Britain would like to extract herself from the European Union, and why not ? Eastern European criminal groups are setting up shop in London and the other larger provincial cities in the UK, while they can at least ? Thereby lies another tale I'm afraid ?

The Australian policy of returning the boats to their point of
departure obviously works. The main reason it works is that the people
waiting to get on a boat see those that went on the previous boats come back !

The photos of the boats heading for Europe have been overloaded by
what can only be vicious criminals. Towing them back could be dangerous
but must be attempted. Lifeboats like our navy supplied could be used
but either way it MUST be done.
The closer to the departure point the boats are intercepted the safer
the whole operation would be.
A number of the passengers on these boats may have never seen the sea
and have no experience of sea going boats because if they did they
would never get on board.
The passengers could with the help of the armed forces be dumped onto
a dock in a port but probably would be resisted.
Whatever is the solution the boats should be destroyed, if necessary by aircraft.

As the EU looks to secure the borders via direct intervention, as reported in today's news, perhaps the world does not regard Australia's border protection policy in such low esteem as those on the Left would lead us to believe. Common sense is prevailing.

A slice of mud pie anyone? Foxy, Suse-"it will be the end of humanity"-online, Paul, Robert, Inspector P?

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned
that Europe must do more than just react. It must
finally come up with a comprehensive plan that ensures
safety for those who deserve international protection.
"We must work on legal immigration - if we close the
doors, migrants will break in through the windows."

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tighter-borders-will-not-stop-refugees-deaths-20150421-1mpjm6.html

Well Foxy, we all know the difficulties of deciding who deserves
protection and who doesn't !
It is the old story of some spoiling it for everyone else.
The cheats are even schooled on what to say.
As far as I can see it is such a problem that the whole process falls over.
It must be next to impossible to decide if a Syrian left because they
had been threatened or left because they were fed up with the interminable warfare.
Can people who are fed up with the warfare be classified as refugees ?

I cannot see a solution except using the first safe country clause.
Libya of course is not a safe country but most would have passed
through Egypt or Mali or others, and many seem to have left safe countries.

Europe will have to get it all sorted out before the charity support
of Egypt dries up.

The whole UN treaty rules need to be rewritten to cope with what is coming.
It seems inevitable that Egypt will be the source of informal migrant
flows. It will be on a scale that has been unimaginable to date.

Fox, "'We must work on legal immigration - if we close the doors, migrants will break in through the windows.'"

Threats, huh?

You have tremendous gall quoting that to sledge by implication an Australian population that was generous well beyond fault in settling large numbers of displaced people after WW2 and relative to population has taken very, very large numbers of migrants ever since.

For donkey's years Federal governments have habitually set new stretch records for immigration. The population (over-)growth is due to migrants. It has been so high and has placed such a strain on State governments and workers through taxation to provide infrastructure, health and welfare that LABOR State premiers, examples being Bob Carr and Anna Bligh, went public on a number of occasions citing "huge and unnecessary pressures" on infrastructure, on available water and power and on taxpayers.

However apologists for open door immigration choose to ignore all of that. Why?

Fox, didn't you recently give oxygen to a publicly-funded ethnic support NGO that was lobbying the feds for immigration to be raised by 25% pa, to 250,000? That is before the extras of doubtful origin, character, background and motivation, courtesy of the people smuggler travel agents, that you would allow through the 'Open Door' you and Greens' SHY are spruiking for.