@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
"What it doesn't deal with is someone hopping on a plane from (the Iranian capital) Tehran, going to Indonesia ... and then hopping on a vessel to come across and do the two day trip (to Australia) and classing themselves as a refugee.''
If someone can find the money to do that, does that mean their claim to be a refugee cannot be genuine?
ask mr husic.
he would have a better understanding of
immigration laws BUT it is my understanding
that when you escape persecution, you would
not have valid passports and visas to travel
across countries and then destroy those
documents to conceal your motives.
i think that is what mr husic was getting at.
there has been a lot of talk about closing the
refugee convention loophole.
your reference to the jews in wwii is an example
of why the geneva convention is seen as not
relevant to the current refugee situation.
