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?

[i-need-a-martini]

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

Oh please bring back the ignore feature!

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Yes please!!!

[acacia_pycnantha]

I don't think an ignore button is required. I manage to be ignored quite successfully without one, thank you all the same. 😉

[acacia_pycnantha]

I am going to come down on the side of criticising the hell out of the govt for taking such a bloody long time to establish the bona fides of the refugee claimants.

(quoting myself here above but,) I once worked in govt, a sort of a public service job and once, when I made a formal complaint about a lack of response to a problem which I had asked to be addressed, I was told "A  three month response time is considered normal  in the public service".

It wasn't good enough for me then and it's sure not good enough for me now.

[polksaladallie]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

I am going to come down on the side of criticising the hell out of the govt for taking such a bloody long time to establish the bona fides of the refugee claimants.

(quoting myself here above but,) I once worked in govt, a sort of a public service job and once, when I made a formal complaint about a lack of response to a problem which I had asked to be addressed, I was told "A  three month response time is considered normal  in the public service".

 

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I'm sure you are right about the slow processing, but the claimants increase that time with appeal after appeal.

[ashjoma]

Just wait and see what happens when the UK borders come down some more next year. We will follow with the problems that have started for them