1) Australia should immediately withdraw from the UNHCR and implement a policy that is in our interests and not the UN’s. This will stop all legal challenges/appeals.
2) Any illegal immigrant who arrives without documentation is immediately deported to the country of departure (if you’re really a “persecuted” person then you’ll keep your documentation to aid in your asylum assessment and not chuck it away).
3) Any illegal immigrant who arrives via boat or plane with documentation shall have their situation assessed in an off shore processing centre (Papua New Guinea or Nauru).
4) Should the illegal immigrant pass all health and security checks, they are to be issued with a temporary protection visa. The TPV will be valid for 12 months only. If at the end of 12 months a residency visa isn’t granted then they are deported. No appeals.
5) While in overseas detention, should the illegal immigrant misbehave then they forfeit their “asylum” claim and are immediately deported.
6) Family reunion will not be permitted – this includes immediate family members.
7) Australian citizenship will be granted only after ten years of law abiding and tax paying residency.
It’s tough I know. But this will STOP the boats as it destroys the people smugglers product and thus it will stop people needlessly drowning.
Otherwise, expect more boat disasters: (timeline of boat disasters)
February 2012
At least eight drown after a boat capsizes near Malaysia
December 2011
Up to 200 die when boat heading from Indonesia to Australia sinks
November 2011
Up to 20 killed when boat capsizes off Java, Indonesia
December 2010
Christmas Island boat crash claims 50 lives, including babies and children
November 2010
Boat with 97 people on board goes missing
May 2010
5 Sri Lankans drown off the Cocos Islands
October 2009
Asylum boat with 105 Hazaras on board believed to have vanished between Indonesia and Australia
April 2009
5 Afghan asylum seekers die when their boat explodes
Plus more and more people turning up illegally: A list of asylum-seeker boat arrivals in 2012 alone
1 - Jan 17 - 74 passengers, two crew - east-northeast of Christmas Island
2 - Jan 19 - 56 passengers, two crew - northeast of Christmas Island
3 - Feb 11 - 125 passengers, two crew - north of Christmas Island
4 - Feb 15 - 121 passengers, six crew - north-northwest of Ashmore Islands
5 - Feb 15 - 69 passengers, two crew - northwest of Christmas Island
6 - Feb 16 - 63 passengers, two crew - north-northeast of Christmas Island
7 - Feb 17 - 71 passengers - west of Christmas Island
8 - Feb 17 - 79 passengers, two crew - northwest of Christmas Island
9 - Feb 20 - 143 passengers, four crew - north of Christmas Island
10 - Feb 21 - 98 passengers, two crew - north of Christmas Island
11 - Feb 21 - 96 passengers, two crew - north of Christmas Island
12 - Mar 6 - 26 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
13 - Mar 13 - 34 passengers, three crew - northeast of Ashmore Reef
14 - Mar 23 - 50 passengers, two crew - south-southeast of Ashmore Islands
15 - Apr 1 - 43 passengers, two crew - north of Tiwi Islands
16 - Apr 3 - 81 passengers, three crew - northwest of Ashmore Islands
17 - Apr 5 - 71 passengers - northeast of Scott Reef
18 - Apr 6 - 49 passengers, four crew - north of Ashmore Islands
19 - Apr 10 - 99 passengers - west of Christmas Island
20 - Apr 12 - 75 passengers, two crew - northeast of Christmas Island
21 - Apr 14 - 19 passengers - north of Christmas Island
22 - Apr 18 - 55 passengers, two crew - southwest of Browse Island
23 - Apr 25 - 50 passengers, two crew - southwest of Ashmore Islands
24 - Apr 27 - 60 passengers - northwest of Ashmore Islands
25 - Apr 29 - 164 passengers, six crew - north-northwest of Christmas Island
26 - Apr 30 - 27 passengers - north of Christmas Island
27 - May 6 - 103 passengers, two crew - north of Christmas Island
28 - May 6 - 138 passengers - north of Christmas Island
29 - May 6 - 64 passengers, four crew - north of Ashmore Islands
30 - May 10 - 60 passengers - north-northwest of Ashmore Islands
31 - May 10 - 99 passengers, two crew - northeast of Christmas Island
32 - May 11 - 84 passengers - west of Christmas Island
33 - May 14 - 121 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
34 - May 18 - 68 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
35 - May 20 - 175 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
36 - May 20 - 44 passengers - west-southwest of Christmas Island
37 - May 21 - 38 passengers - north of Christmas Island
38 - May 28 - 88 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
39 - May 30 - 40 passengers - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
40 - June 1 - four passengers, two crew - east-northeast of Ashmore Islands
41 - June 2 - 87 passengers, two crew - northwest of Christmas Island
42 - June 2 - 150 passengers - north of Christmas Island
43 - June 3 - 85 passengers, three crew - northwest of Christmas Island
44 - June 5 - 49 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
45 - June 7 - 23 passengers, two crew - west-southwest of Ashmore Islands
46 - June 9 - 100 passengers, two crew - northeast of Christmas Island
47 - June 9 - 24 passengers, three crew - southwest of Ashmore Islands
48 - June 9 - 32 passengers - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
49 - June 10 - 38 passengers, two crew - north-northwest of Christmas Island
50 - June 11 - 110 passengers - northeast of Christmas Island
51 - June 12 - 25 passengers, three crew - northeast of Ashmore Islands
52 - June 12 - 72 passengers, two crew - north of Christmas Island
53 - June 13 - 35 passengers - Cocos (Keeling) Island
54 - June 15 - 35 passengers, one crew - east of North Scott Reef
55 - June 20 - 52 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
56 - June 20 - 69 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
57 - June 21 - 117 passengers - northwest of Christmas Island
Another one: immigrants who return for a vacation to a country wherein they claimed it was too dangerous to dwell, will be denied re-entry.
Posted by: Deadman Turner | 23 June 2012 at 01:24 PM