Peopls Smugglers Already Making New Plans.

[icyfroth]

Good Morning All.

Oh well we had a few refreshingly light-hearted threads yesterdayn now back to politics lol

"For   between $US15,000 ($16,350) and $US25,000 per person - three to five  times the average boat fare -  they will  fly them from Indonesia to Thailand or  Malaysia, then to Australia on a genuine but altered passport, probably from  Europe.

The smugglers say their proposal avoids the Papua New Guinea solution and the  opposition's temporary resettlement plan."

Fly In Smuggle Plan

Iranian Binai Abdu Samad  said many people  ''already came here [to  Indonesia] with illegal passports …   now a smuggler is saying, 'We'll prepare  for you a tourist visa.'

''When you get to Australia, you cut the passport and go to immigration and  say I am a refugee. They can't send you back then,'' he said. ''And you will get  a lawyer with the smuggler's help.''

Another young Iranian, Ali Bahrani, agreed:  ''Some of the single people from  Pakistan now are just talking about this.'' He had heard a price of $US25,000  and said it was designed because ''in Australia, the rules are just for  boats''.

Because the sums are so large, the  money would be held in a trust with a   third party   and released to the smuggler only when the asylum seeker was on  Australian territory.

It's all just business as usual isn't it?

[polksaladallie]

Asylum seekers (and others who are illegal) have been flying in for years and years.

[purplecarrot-top]

Most illegals come by plane. Overstay their visas and just disappear. So nothing new.

[polksaladallie]

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@purplecarrot-top wrote:

Most illegals come by plane. Overstay their visas and just disappear. So nothing new.

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Most "legals" come by plane also.

[freakiness]

Beats me why people coming by boat are demonised in the way they are when we could not fill the seats at the MCG with them. More people go to one footy final than have come by boats in the past 10 years.

[not_an_eloi]

burke and morrison, both,  reckon this story is flamin' rubbish

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-18/tony-burke-rubbishes-fairfax-asylum-seeker-report/4894754

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Asylum seekers (and others who are illegal) have been flying in for years and years.

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And at least coming by plane is a lot safer than coming in a leaky boat.

[poddster]

At what cost?

[acacia_pycnantha]

"For   between $US15,000 ($16,350) and $US25,000 per person - three to five  times the average boat fare -  they will  fly them from Indonesia to Thailand or  Malaysia, then to Australia on a genuine but altered passport, probably from  Europe.

So now we can expect a better class of refugee?

[polksaladallie]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

"For   between $US15,000 ($16,350) and $US25,000 per person - three to five  times the average boat fare -  they will  fly them from Indonesia to Thailand or  Malaysia, then to Australia on a genuine but altered passport, probably from  Europe.

So now we can expect a better class of refugee?

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How does the amount of money paid translate to "class"?  Wealthy people can be shot or hacked to death too.