Meridae'n

The problem here being that we can't send them back home. First you have to work out where home is, and secondly you have to legally prove to the recipiant government that you have some of their nationals in custody. I could only imagine how much red tape there would be there.

And therein, as the bard says, lies the rub. The real criminals here are the people who are bringing these people into our country. Stop the smugglers and you stop the illegals. The problem here is that Indonesia have no intention on stopping this trade. Clamping down would take money and resources, both of which they can't afford, to do what... stop something that doesn't really effect them at all? Not going to happen.

The media is just a reflection of public opinion. Whatever is more popular gets more front pages. The Cronulla riots happened because people (of many races) are sick to death of groups of muslim men spitting on women, abusing people, and pack hunting. There'll be more of this because these men will not stop acting like this. In most cases they are 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants who's parents/grand parents have given everything for their new home but they themselves are full of hatred and cowardice.

Firstly which human rights are we denying exactly? They are in detention because they have broken the law. In no country on earth is ignorance of the law an excuse for breaking it. If you're talking about treatment inside these places I would like to hear of actual examples of human rights abuses. By this I don't mean unsubstantiated stories from those with something to gain from this situation. I have two mates from Wagga who have worked at Woomera for extended periods of time who have never seen anything untoward happen to anyone in their custody.

As for your other point you are spot on the money. If we just let these people in there will be consequences down the track. Why are these people trying to get in without being screened? What do they have to hide? If they are true refugees why haven't they applied for that status in the first country they came upon? No, these people have cross a number of borders to come to Australia in particular, and have paid large sums of money to avoid the screening process, and we need to know why. Millions of peopl have migrated to Australia thru the correct channels, why do these people think they don't have too?

Yeah there is a huge difference. This difference comes about from the relative difference in the muslim populations of Sydney and Melbourne. Don't worry, I'm not a muslim basher, but it is fact that young muslim men have extremely little respect for women, and only slightly higher respect for people of other cultures. In Melbourne europeans and asians make up a far greater percentage of the non-anglo saxon population, whereas in Sydney there are far more muslims. Don't think I'm on the money, please offer me a different theory.

We don't actually. Our major cities are already dense and these people will never move out to the country.

The people who are coming into this coutry illegally have no idea that the camps exist i would say. Even if they did they would be more than preparred to live in a cell for 2 years to gain residency into Australia.

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