This is an update on previous posts (see our Australia category, here) we’ve done on the veritable flood of asylum seeking men from Muslim countries attempting to get into Australia. For all you commenters who called me an Islamophobe at this post last week, where I said it was a lie to suggest that Islam welcomes the stranger, note all the flow of refugees is always away from Muslim countries and toward westernized countries. You don’t see hordes of refugees beating on the doors of Saudi Arabia with its state-of-the art border fence, but Australia, like America and Europe, is where everyone wants to be.
Saudi Arabia knows there would no longer be a Saudi Arabia if their doors were flung wide open. Many Americans and Australians know it also (some Europeans get it but it may be too late for them)—open borders will destroy the prosperity of westernized democracies, but unfortunately the powers that be in both Australia and America are working really hard to do just that—-destroy the goose that lays the golden egg.
From the Brisbane Times today:
A BOAT carrying 194 people, the largest number of asylum seekers on a single vessel in eight years, has been intercepted 43 kilometres north-west of Christmas Island.
Australian officials had tracked the small wooden fishing boat, which defence sources said was overcrowded, since Friday after it left Indonesia.
Those on board, almost all men, are understood to be Afghan or Iraqi, and are being processed in immigration detention on Christmas Island. No children were aboard.
You can’t blame it all on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because note that in 2001 the numbers were even higher and had gone down when the Howard government made it harder to get into Australia.
Arrivals by boat this year are well up on the 161 last year, but still far below the heights of 2001, when 5516 arrived.
Insisting their policies aren’t involved, the liberal Rudd government has been loosening restrictions on refugees and asylees, while claiming the flood is related to an increase in refugees worldwide.
Those who do not support flinging borders wide open, say it is those policies that are encouraging the boatmen and their human traffickers.
The Opposition spokeswoman on immigration, Sharman Stone, said the latest arrival could be directly attributed to the Federal Government’s softer immigration regime.
“This week we have seen another softening,” Dr Stone said, referring to legislation to remove charges levied against people for their time spent in immigration detention. “No wonder we have seen a boat this big.
