NO BOATS ILLEGALS since December 19 2013

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NO BOATS or ILLEGALS since December 19 2013

Well done to the Abbott govt 

No people-smuggling venture had succeeded in landing asylum seekers on Australia for more than four months, the government says.

In the latest update on Operation Sovereign Borders, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday that vigorous border protection activities was deterring illegal boat arrivals, even into the post-monsoon period when weather conditions usually improve.

Mr Morrison said the practice of turning back unauthorised boats remained in effect.

"Anyone seeking to enter Australia illegally by boat will be faced with the same policies those who previously attempted illegal entry met," he said in a statement.

Mr Morrison said no one had reached Australia since December 19 and that continued this month. But 3351 on 47 boats arrived in April 2013 under the former Labor government. (a Labor Failure their border policy) 

The latest Operation Sovereign Borders operational update says there are now 1281 in the processing centre on Manus Island and 1177 on Nauru, making a total of 2458.

Another 1405 remain on Christmas Island. During the last week, eight asylum seekers were transferred to Nauru.

Seven unauthorised maritime arrival transferees were voluntarily returned to Iran.

Since Operation Sovereign Borders started on September 18, 220 asylum seekers have voluntarily returned to their home countries.

[boris1gary]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

....errr, remind me Boris please - what has the High Court of Australia just temporarily granted?....and what for again?

.....also,  do you believe that the OP knows where these 153 'disappeared' asylum seekers are?

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mmmm....is it OK to say i don't believe anything that the o.....never mind Paints i guess you can guess the rest. The reminder is in big font, easier to remember.

The High Court has issued an interim injunction preventing the transfer to Sri Lanka of 153 asylum seekers who are missing on a boat bound for Australia.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/legal-cloud-on-asylum-transfer-20140708-3bj5i....

[boris1gary]

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@pct001wine wrote:

So it's all down to a number. How many $ have been "saved" because of this sad government's policies.

Shame on all of you.  I am truly saddened if this is a true reflection of Australian society.

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It isn't a true reflection pct001wine....

Gosford Anglican Church's Father Rod Bower and his signs of the times

The leadership of Australia’s mainstream churches may sometimes seem slightly silent on boat people, but a Gosford Anglican reverend is at the forefront of a grassroots movement impatient with waiting for religious hierarchies to get their acts together.

Father Rod Bower’s pithy and sometimes trenchant musings appear daily on the notice board outside his church in Mann Street, Gosford.

On Monday he posted: "Joining our hearts to the disappeared’’ to encapsulate concern about the fate of Sri Lankans handed over by the Abbott government to Colombo authorities.




Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/gosford-anglican-churchs-father-rod-bower-and-his-signs-of-the-times-20140...

[the_great_she_elephant]

 According to The Guardian, Friday 21st March 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/tony-abbott-will-press-png-to-speed-up-asylum-seeker-pr... up till that date not one detainee had actually been granted permanent settlement in Papua NewGuinea.  I'm looking for data to show whether today, over three months later, the situation has improved at all.  Can anyone help me out?

[lakeedge]

So all of the returned "refugees" were looking for work not fleeing death or torture.

The other boatload is now aboard a patrol boat on the high seas, they were never in Australian Territorial waters.

Barak Obama is now moving to stem the flow of illegal immigrants  of 25,000 per month into the USA and has now realised the immensity of the problem, Obama has now fallen in the the polls to the lowest point in his career because he has lost control of the borders and the very sovereignty of the USA is threatened.

11 Million illegal immigrants are now in the USA and it's getting worse for the American people every day.

These boat people came from India and used people smugglers to try to access Australia, by their own account they said they were not refugees but looking for work.

The are living in India, not in fear of their lives and were economic refugees nothing more,   the moral humbug spouted from the left and the Greens is just that.

[debra9275]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/opinion/australias-refugee-problem.html?_r=5

an article from the New York Times about our way of stopping refugees

[the_great_she_elephant]

The are living in India, not in fear of their lives and were economic refugees nothing more,   

But they are not being returned to India are they? They are being returned to SRI LANKA where they quite likely ARE in fear of their lives.

[the_great_she_elephant]

9th August 2013. The foreign minister of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has announced that his country will introduce a new visa class for refugees deported from Australia under a new treaty between the two countries.

Mr Rimbink Pato says that the PNG government will introduce legislation which would allow asylum seekers permanent resident status and citizenship.

http://www.workpermit.com/news/2013-08-09/new-giunea-to-create-new-visa-for-australian-asylum-seeker...

Can anyone tell me how many asylum seekers have actually been granted these visas?

[monman12]

The are living in India, not in fear of their lives and were economic refugees nothing more,   

 But they are not being returned to India are they? They are being returned to SRI LANKA where they quite likely ARE in fear of their lives.

Where exactly is the reference  for that TGSE, because there is a history of Sri Lanka refugees being economic?

The Circus in Town time:

The Chief of mission for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Sri Lanka .... says one of the factors driving Sri Lankan's to board boats to Australia is their economic situation. .....The IOM is working with the Australian Government helping repatriate the Sri Lankan's who chose to return home rather than wait for years in detention centres in Australia or on Nauru.
He says many of those who have chosen to return to Sri Lanka voluntarily originally left their homeland in search of work.

"That is often what we hear, people tell us they were just seeking better lives," he said.

Last week, Australia's immigration minister Chris Bowen sent 26 men back to Sri Lanka who had arrived by boat, suggesting they were economic refugees.

"We have, of course, developed robust procedures for dealing with genuine claims for asylum, but we will not have people who do not have genuine claims to make be going through our system," Mr Bowen said."

It is such a pity that  asylum seekers are now just the filling in a political sandwich,  federally,  and here !

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[monman12]

A reasonable NY Times article D9275,   so I presume some here will not read it.  Excerpts:

"Last fall, Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched Operation Sovereign Borders, a campaign involving the military to divert boats full of asylum seekers to Indonesia before they can reach Australian shores."

"Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pledged that no one who arrived by boat without a visa would ever be granted permission to settle in Australia, and adopted a tough policy of sending asylum seekers to a refugee-processing center in nearby Papua New Guinea"
A pity no mention was made of Rudd's dismantling of the Pacific Solution and the resulting deaths by drowning caused by the influx of boats afterwards.


Australia’s government confirmed Monday that it had handed over 41 asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities in a transfer at sea, drawing outrage from human rights groups who fear that the Sri Lankans could be persecuted in their home country. The asylum seekers’ boat was intercepted by Australia’s border patrol in the Indian Ocean in June, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said. On Sunday, they were handed over to the Sri Lankan government after their refugee claims were rejected. Late Monday night, Australia’s High Court issued an interim injunction blocking the government from transferring more than 150 asylum seekers from a second boat to Sri Lankan authorities. The injunction will remain in place until a hearing is held on Tuesday. This was the first time Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government had confirmed that it had screened asylum seekers at sea and returned them directly to their home country. Among the asylum seekers leaving Sri Lanka are ethnic Tamils who survived a civil war between government troops and the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. Advocates for the refugees say ethnic Tamils still face the threat of violence by the military.

Some more information: Of the 41 in the first boat  37 were Sinhalese and 4 Tamils. Apart from possible 5 organisers/crew, 29 adults have now been granted bail by the Galle Magistrates court and 9 children have not been charged

Continuing with current events (politics) and this possible even more embarrassing possible headline:
UN Security Council condemns Australia for serving food to asylum seekers that is past its expiry date

Persecuted, mistreated and gastronomically tortured desperate asylum seekers:

SMH July 8
"One of the asylum seekers, Anthony Fernando, 38, told Fairfax Media that he had had been "mistreated" by Australian authorities and given food that was past its expiry date."
"We were ill treated mid sea by Australian authorities. They did not give food that had not gone off," Mr Fernando said.
"I went [to] Australia to find employment and then settle and bring my wife and family."

Another man, Punchi Banda Podinilame, said he had one son, two sons-in-law and seven other relatives on the boat.
He said they had all gone to Australia to find employment.

As for the other boat,  facts might help counter the shrieks of outrage based upon just biased conjecture.
The wife (in India) of one of the "missing" 153 said she and her family had been living as a refugee there (India) for 24 years (the civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009), and her husband had undertaken the journey to what he thought would be New Zealand in order to pay for his daughters education.

Facts,  a ray of light in the darkness of ignorance and political prejudice

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[boris1gary]