ALP policies put pressure on detention facilities

[IQSRLOW]

Labor policies encourage asylum seekers. Are you that stupid ?

[Jovial Monk]

This is a political forum. You are expected to support your statements and to defend them. All you are saying, like a 10 year old: because!

Come on, how do ALP policies put pressure on detention centres?

[boxy]

Labor policies encourage asylum seekers. Are you that stupid ?

What changes, exactly, from Howard policy, encourage asylum seekers? Even in the Howard years, asylum seekers received due process.

[IQSRLOW]

Abolishing the pacific solution and protection visas. It was basically a broacast to the people smugglers that the doors are now open

[Jovial Monk]

Wow, step by step, like pulling teeth.

How did those two things do anything?

[IQSRLOW]

Go fuck yourself. It's self explanatory

[boxy]

Abolishing the pacific solution and protection visas. It was basically a broacast to the people smugglers that the doors are now open

Protection visas? Weren't they around in the Howard era?

[IQSRLOW]

Yes and krudd abolished them.

[Jovial Monk]

I think you will find, tweetypie, that Howard's Pacific Solution achieved diddly squat, for all the $1+Bn cost. It was an exercise in fiddling the books. The same 95% of asylum seekers were granted asylum.

What determines the number of boat people is the state of the world, wars, droughts & famines.

Tweetypie means temporary protection visas. Made life hell for those allowed into Australia.

[IQSRLOW]

I think you will find, fluffy bunny, that the pacific solution allowed access for genuine asylum seekers while discouraging illegal economic country shoppers.

The same, fluffy bunny, goes for the tpvs