Asylum Seekers Subject to Unfair Treatment

[classical_hero]

Seems a technicality specifically designed to dodge our responsibilities with regards to asylum seekers. There are good reasons to not allow for illegal entry into Australian waters without express permission, but when the aim is to prevent poor people from seeking asylum, then it's misguided to say the least.

The whole point is that they are often undocumented so you cannot check them out, plus people to do the smuggling can make lots of money of these people, so I don't understand why they would go throw illegal means to enter our country when there are legal means of entry and legal means of trying to get asylum. Basically they are queue jumpers how deny those who have done the right thing and gone through the system.

 

[Camikaze]

classical_hero, as has been stated a few times already in this thread, there is no queue. Paying to come over on a boat is often going to be the only available way to get here for genuine asylum seekers. Treating them as criminals is deplorable. The only reason these people arrive by boat is because they do not have access to the legal means of entry.

I would greatly pleased if you were to elaborate on this 'system' that you speak of in the last sentence.

 

[Arwon]

Percentage of asylum seekers who arrive via plane who are found to be genuine refugees: 20%

Percentage of asylum seekers who arrive via boat who are found to be genuine refugees: 90%

So why do we treat the latter like criminals and why did both the Howard and Rudd government try to prevent the latter group from accessing Australian law?

C_h: Arriving in Australia and seeking asylum is the system. UN-sponsored refugee allocations is another system but most of the world's displaced persons don't have access to that process.