Know the facts on asylum seekers and Australia ‘Boat people’ are not breaking any law, so they’re not ‘illegal’. Australia has a legal obligation under international law to accept asylum seekers. Less than half of all ‘illegal immigrants’ are ‘boat people’. Only about half of all asylum seekers arrive by boat. 92% of ‘boat people’ are genuine refugees; they have a genuine reason to fear persecution in their own country. ‘Boat people’ are not jumping the queue. They’re still genuine refugees if they can afford boat passage. They’re still genuine refugees if they come via Indonesia. 51 other countries get proportionally more asylum seekers than Australia (relative to GDP). ‘Soft’ border protection laws did NOT cause an influx of ‘boat people. Refugees who came by boat make up only 2.5% of all of Australia’s immigrants. Only 1.4% of all our immigrants are Muslim boat people from countries that follow strict Sharia law. And they’re fleeing those Sharia law countries! Abbott does NOT have a mandate to stop the boats by breaching international law. Australia is breaching international law by detaining boat people unnecessarily and turning them away (e.g. sending them to Indonesia). glennmurray.au/australia-boat-people-illegal-policy/
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:39:56 +0000
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