ALMOST 1000 asylum seekers have arrived in 17 days, some of them expecting to be freed into the community within months.
As the latest boat arrived yesterday with 76 people aboard, it emerged smugglers had promised visas, housing and internet access.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the only way to stop the boats was for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to back her plan to change the Migration Act to allow offshore processing of asylum seekers.
"We said without that power there'd be more boats," Ms Gillard told the Herald Sun.
Yesterday a Hazari detainee in the nation's newest detention centre, at Wickham Point, Darwin, said he knew the Malaysia deal had collapsed and that he expected to be given a visa.
The refugee, 21, recently arrived from Pakistan after paying people smugglers $4000 in Indonesia. He expected to be out of detention within four months and released into the community.
"The country of Malaysia is not good. If this was possible (being sent to Malaysia) then I would be back home, not in Malaysia," he said.
At Wickham asylum seekers sleep two to a room in airconditioned shipping containers.
It is believed the top three questions being asked by those who have arrived since the Government announced bridging visas last month was when will they get a visa, a house and internet access.
Refugees complained the new centre's 40 computers were not enough and four English classes were insufficient.
A Iranian engineer, 34, said he paid $15,000 to people smugglers in the Middle East and used multiple fake passports before boarding a boat in Indonesia, but he said he had been given no specific promises.
He said people smugglers offered to take him to France or Australia but he decided reaching Australia was easier.
"In my country I have a house and a car," he said. "I had one problem, I had to leave my country, some people could kill me."
Mr Abbott toured the $200 million Wickham centre yesterday and called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to immediately reintroduce the temporary protection visas from the Howard Government.
"This would immediately mean much less of a pull factor for people currently waiting across the Indonesian archipelago," he said.
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen attacked the Coalition for not supporting law changes to allow the Malaysia people swap after it was struck down in the High Court.
"All the expert advice is that the Malaysia arrangement would be a genuinely effective deterrent to prevent these boat journeys," he said.
heraldsun.com.au 17 Dec 2011
Illegal immigrants, i.e. criminals are being treated better than the native citizens of Australia.
Australia is fulfilling its role in the new order of the world of globalisation, and settling in criminals, to the danger of the generals populous.
From the previous migration waves, Australia has imported some of the worst criminals from the Middle East and Asia.
These crime gangs run the drug cartels with full knowledge of the police / authorities, with the government idly standing by.
There are no orders to wipe out the drug trade, but rather to have it at a manageable level, with only the 'top dog' operators, and heads of government being involved.
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