otb,

"You would think that these whining, serial-protestor leftists would realise that not pursuing visa overstayers who break the rules is being damned unfair to the many migrants who do obey the rules and come here legitimately."

Nice try...but this whole episode is not about tracking down visa overstayers.

It's about the Abbott regime beefing up immigration into a paramilitary unit - spending over $6 million on new black uniforms - and then (and only then) attempting to deploy them in visible fashion on the streets.

Why did this whole set up occur when it did?

Because that's when the uniforms were up and running. That's when the ABF would have been a fully identifiable adjunct to ordinary police... a sort of Abbott Brown Shirts - except in black.

Sinister and menacing, given time, they would have paraded around picking off this one and that at will - and you can bet your bottom dollar they wouldn't have been singling out the Anglo-Saxons - for "anti-social behaviour and outstanding warrants"

So a ready made harassment machine - on the streets of our cities.

Yep, that's the Australia I grew up in - Not!

What drivel OTB. You couldn't give a damn about the migrants who are already here, and even less about the refugees waiting in the camps overseas.

Any intelligent person knows that Abbott and his merry men (and one lone woman- not a feminist though...thank God!) are all about presenting themselves , to the gullible people who believe such rubbish, as our manly saviors from the marauding Muslim hoards who are out to violently take over Australia.

Abbott and Co. will save us though, by catching these terrorists as they walk around the Melbourne CBD ...carrying 'papers' that show they are terrorists of course.

Poirot,

That is absolute bunkum and you know it.

If there are 60,000 plus Visa overstayers and illegal workers and 20,000 are being added annually, what performance targets would you set and what strategies would you recommend?

Visa over-stayers are at the mercy of employers, crooked employers, that is where the fault lies no TFN no work. Employers that employ persons with no TFN need to be dealt with so overstay does not happen. It shows some employers are rotten to the core just like the Conservative govt;. who can not control their own rules of visa.

I can't wait for the day Abbott declares he is fighting "The never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."

Have any of the rabid right posters here applied for a job with Australian Boarder Force, applications close this Sunday, Father's Day, how appropriate, you can fight for 'The Fatherland' and get to carry a gun, and wear a snappy black uniform at the same time, that in itself should appeal to most of you. All that's required is you have your PAPERZ! in order and are willing to attend the "college" for six months.

Thanks Foxy for those links they made for interesting reading. Have to go now there are half a dozen burly looking blokes in black bashing on my door, have to run! Oops where's my papers.

Beach, do you still favor the formation of a paramilitary 'Citizens Militia' which you put forward on the forum previously? It would dove tail nicely with Abbott's Boarder Force. It could assist to restore "law and order" if things should ever get out of hand.