No passport - no asylum

We have long been saying that any asylum seeker coming from a safe third country – Indonesia Malaysia – without a passport should be assumed to be acting in bad faith.

They should not be allowed to seek asylum here. It's good to see the coalition has adopted our proposal.

In the meantime Australians are outraged by the case of Capt Emad. The ABC’s Four Corners had tracked him down. A people smuggler, he entered Australia as an asylum seeker. The Gillard government process found him to be a refugee. He and members of his family were given government housing. Some were on welfare.
As soon as the program aired, he fled the country. And the police let him go. They said they'd been watching him but didn't have admissible evidence. Australians are concerned about the timidity of our police. Just recall the Australia Day riot. Instead of warning and if necessary then arresting the rioters, they engaged in the farce of carrying the Prime Minister out bodily to escape a few demonstrators.

And by the way the police have decided not to prosecute anybody over that riot. Just as some years ago, after the Cronulla Beach riots, the police refrained from even approaching a motorcade of heavily armed men who engaged in a vicious revenge mission across Sydney's southern suburbs.

There were quite happy to restrain the young rioters who were using their fists on Cronulla Beach. But they wouldn't touch the revenge motorcade armed to the teeth with knives and machetes and other weapons – and who used them. Meanwhile, the people smugglers have delivered 18,500 clients to Australia since Labor changed John Howard’s solution. Each one approved for asylum brings in three or four under the Gillard government’s “chain immigration” policy.

Most are still on welfare years after arriving. How many are themselves people smugglers who have to set up business here operating even from government housing while they are on welfare?

We are told the government has toughened up approving people as refugees and lowered this to about 50 or 60%. But on reviews and appeals, about 75 to 80% of the rejections are overruled. And who pays for these reviews and appeals? And who set up the system or has not changed it? Captain Emad no doubt left the country laughing. Is our federal government just incompetent? Or is this similar to policies advanced by the left in Europe? The new French president promised in the election to give the vote to non- citizens in France, and an amnesty to almost half a million illegal immigrants. Has the Gillard government – and the previous Rudd government - adopted a boats for votes policy? Governments should be accountable 24/7. Not just every three or four years.