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"The flood of illegal immigrants which looked like getting out of control three years ago has been reduced to a trickle by the hard-line Liberal government. Carting off a few boaties to Papua New Guinea and Nauru worked a treat, not to mention the freak drowning of some 350 illegal wannabes off the coast of Indonesia." The flood of illegal immigrants didn't stop because we locked them up or sent them to the Pacific, it stopped because the Indonesian government shut down the smugglers (with assistance from the AFP). Somehow I don't think some poor arse in Pakistan is reading The Sydney Morning Herald about the abject conditions in detention centres before embarking on an arduous journey through SE Asia. If these guys had cash and education, they'd fly in on Qantas like the vast majority of illegal immigrants in Oz. "The issue is not that an Australian citizen was mistakenly deported by an incompetent public servant, but that immigration officials may have tried to cover up the mistake after it had happened." I think both are the point. You can't honestly say that deporting or detaining mentally ill Australians and Australian residents is excusable because we expect incompetence from public servants?
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