Frankly I wish them the very best, they were in the wrong, but their treatment was hardly a fair go.
Criminals are often treated better.

Border security should have put them on a plane
immediately and sent them home - like they do at
the air-ports. Instead these people were given
every legal opportunity to have their case heard.
And they were maintained by Aussie taxpayers.

Thanks be to God and thank you Paul for bringing us this good news!

Pauliar,

These people are illegal immigrants, i.e. they are not refugees and had no legal right to immigrate to Australia. It shows that if you enter Australia illegally under Labor with a good PR campaign Labor will waive the rules.

It is this emotive knee jerk exceptionalism that led to 1200 illegals being drowned and 50 000 illegal immigrants and Juliar getting thrashed in 2013.

In 2007 Krudd promised to be fiscally responsible and to maintain the Pacific solution. In 2008 he abandoned both. Let's see how long Albozo lasts with the greens holding the balance in the senate.

Its easy to be cynical, heartless and bitter towards these people. The government could easily throw them on a plane and back to where they came from, once the fuss died down we would never have to hear from them again, problem solved. After all they are only two parents with two little children who DID US WRONG! That would be the easy solution, and in an uncaring society that is what should be done, but I believe Australians are not that uncaring, and public opinion says overwhelmingly, "let them stay", by being forgiving and compassionate in this circumstance it makes us a better people, it sets us apart from others. Sure, there may be unpleasant consequences flowing from this decision of ours, and it is a collective decision of the Australian people and not the government acting alone, that the Nadesalingam family stay.

For the religious it relates to the 'Parable of the Good Samaritan'.

Send them home.