Asylum immigrants - Green Light

[chiff]

Of course you are right YMI-but politicians use asylum seekers to pursue their base agenda.

 

[drsmith]

I just wonder, why do they say ‘arrivals since Labor came to power’? Wouldn’t it be the same number if Liberal was at power or any other party?

Labor changed the rules after coming to power in 2007. Up until that time, the Coalition's policies had worked well as shown by your graphic above.

 

[Calliope]

John Howard, as usual, gets it right.

“There’s little doubt there’d be many in this room, whatever their politics, who would testify to the extraordinary internal strains of satisfying the inner urban elites – if I can put it that way – and those with more traditional Labor backgrounds,” Mr Howard said of the challenge for the Labor side of politics. “But that pales in my view into relative insignificance compared with the impact of that tension on what I regard as the greatest policy failure by a country mile of the present government, and that is on the issue of border protection. That is, in my view, the issue above all issues which encapsulates the internal dilemma and tension for the left-hand side of politics.

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http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/chriskenny/index.php

 

[drsmith]

Some numbers on the financial cost to the budget, and they are staggering.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s-5bn-black-hole/story-fn9hm1gu-1226637903975

 

[drsmith]

11 boats in the past week carrying 768 passengers. This compares to 4 boats carrying 365 passengers for the same period last year.

*10/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
10/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
09/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels
07/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
07/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
07/05/2013 Customs and Border Protection intercept vessel
06/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
06/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
06/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
04/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels

10/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
07/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
06/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels

http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

* In counting the number of boat arrivals this week, I've assumed this announcement is a duplicate as the details are identical to the earlier 10/05/2013 announcement.

 

[sptrawler]

Apparently asylum in Indonesia isn't what they want, they want Australia and a welfare system, who wouldn't?

http://www.smh.com.au/world/asylum-seekers-in-bali-standoff-20130512-2jg0e.html

Obviously the Gillard carrot is bigger, than the unsafe voyage stick.

 

[bigdog]

When will the government set up sentencing for ten years in jail for the crews of these vessels ferrying the illegal immigrants?

Do you think that ten years in jail will reduce the illegal arrivals?

 

[sptrawler]

When will the government set up sentencing for ten years in jail for the crews of these vessels ferrying the illegal immigrants?

Do you think that ten years in jail will reduce the illegal arrivals?

From what I've heard, they earn more in jail here, than they can earn at home.

 

[sptrawler]

So now we have Labor trying to morph into the Coalition government.
They really have no shame.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...australias-migration-zone-20130516-2joee.html

The slagging they gave Howard when he suggested excising mainland Australia, was beyond the pale.
Now the push the policy through, what a goon show, completely out of control and in a tail spin.lol

 

[drsmith]

12 boats carrying 714 passengers over the past fortnight. This compares to 8 boats carrying 692 passengers for the same period last year.

23/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
23/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
21/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
21/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
20/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
19/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
18/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
17/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
16/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
16/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
15/05/2013 Australian Government authorities respond to vessel at Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory
15/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel

21/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels
20/05/2012 Border Protection Command assists vessel
18/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
16/05/2012 Australian Federal Police intercept vessel
15/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
12/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
11/05/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

 

[Ijustnewit]

Another 3 boats carrying 208 people in the last 24 hrs.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Top..._AsylumseekerboatsinterceptedoffWA_RSS_250513

 

[noco]

Another 3 boats carrying 208 people in the last 24 hrs.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Top..._AsylumseekerboatsinterceptedoffWA_RSS_250513

The Gillard Government syas that is "OLD HAT", we know all about that, lets talk about Sports Gambling, that is more important today.

Another diversion from the real issues, another day in this failed miserable Labor Government.

 

[drsmith]

Another 3 boats carrying 208 people in the last 24 hrs.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Top..._AsylumseekerboatsinterceptedoffWA_RSS_250513

Monday morning sees 4 fresh new announcements of boat arrivals on Jason Clare's site totalling 404 passengers on 6 boats.

Someone in his office needs a coffee. The most recent announcement says boat in the header when it should say boats.

 

[sptrawler]

It is obviously out of control now.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ected-this-financial-year-20130527-2n6w7.html

This is going to be a huge problem.

 

[drsmith]

This is going to be a huge problem.

Labor's tax increases aren't all for the NDIS and Gonski. They are in a significant part the cost inflicted on the electorate for this mess.

Monday evening now sees the tally up to 6 new announcements of boat arrivals on Jason Clare's site totalling 612 passengers on 8 boats. If recent weeks are any indication, we could be looking at 40,000 per year.

 

[sptrawler]

Labor's tax increases aren't all for the NDIS and Gonski. They are in a significant part the cost inflicted on the electorate for this mess.

Monday evening now sees the tally up to 6 new announcements of boat arrivals on Jason Clare's site totalling 612 passengers on 8 boats. If recent weeks are any indication, we could be looking at 40,000 per year.

This may well be Labors plan for a 'bigger' Australia, hope it doesn't blow up in everyones faces, no pun intended.

 

[dutchie]

Labor gets number of illegal immigrants wrong by a factor of 5.

(Another boat - another policy failure)^n

Where n is a number that just gets bigger everyday!

Government has given up any semblance of border protection. Complete disgrace. For this failure alone they should be "cut to the bone" in September.


No idea about budget numbers.

Definite theme here. Labor needs to go back to school (Primary) and redo the maths course at the very least.

Absolutely clueless mob of inept union hacks.

 

[drsmith]

Has another boat come to grief ?

Australian Federal Police have confirmed 28 life jackets have washed up on a beach at Cocos Islands off Western Australia's northern coast.

They were reported by local residents on Friday.

One is believed to have contained a small amount of Iranian money.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-27/fears-more-asylum-seekers-may-have-drowned/4714346

 

[Calliope]

If she were a Muslim and came in illegally there would be no problem.

AN Adelaide man is fighting to keep his pregnant Russian girlfriend in Australia but immigration officials have rejected her pregnancy as a reason for a visa extension.

Single father-of-two Robert Pitt, 38, from Paradise, and Russian national Natasha Zaydenberg, 36, plan to marry after a whirlwind romance that started in March but have been told that "pregnancy is no grounds for a waiver'' on her three-month tourist visa.

Ms Zaydenberg arrived in Adelaide on March 10 with a visa to study English at UniSA to improve her skills as a manager of a Moscow restaurant chain.

The TR 676 visa stipulated "no further stay" as a condition, as well as "no work" and "limited study".

Robert Pitt met her through an online dating site soon after her arrival and the couple hit it off, to the point where Ms Zaydenberg moved in with Mr Pitt and is now five weeks pregnant with her first child.

However, their application to waive the "no further stay" condition on her visa was rejected and Ms Zaydenberg must leave Australia by June 10 or face deportation.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...-girlfriend-here/story-fnii5yv7-1226652602806

 

[Julia]

I don't see why she should be allowed to stay. She knew the conditions of her visa. So did he.
Clearly their assumption that her getting pregnant would offer them a way round it has failed. Tough.