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>> My concern is how those asylum seekers got released without authorities even
>> having a clue of their potential actions - >> were they just chucked out, given welfare, >> or did they pass some kind of security check? Was that the security check with the yes/no question: "are you sure you are not
a terrorist". Or was that the one where they ring up the local despot and say
"is this person really in danger of being persecuted by you because of their
political beliefs?" Right, I thought so. Yes, the 'authorities' were probably incompetent. Government employees will
always be incompetent - that's why they work for the government instead of
working in the real world. It's much easier to train a government employee to keep people outside the
walls than to train them to track down suspicious people in a population with
strong personal liberties and rights to privacy, and the right to
non-cooperation with law enforcement authorities. >> If it is the first option, even my "soft" approach to asylum seekers isn't this
>> silly (other readers refer to previous posts), nor does it subsidise asylum
>> seekers at tax payers expense (only for their period of detainment. A forty-eight hour turn-around on deportation would minimize the level of
subsidy too. Even a policy of 'indefinite detainment until deportation' would stop the
flow as soon as the conviction behind the policy became apparent. It's the
namby-pamby should-we-shouldn't-we approach which is causing the problems. >> If it is the second choice, then obviously the system needs to be reviewed and
>> tightened. Mandatory is another option but sort of integrates into my idea
>> about security checks for release. Otherwise there is the stupid option of
>> rounding up and deporting all suspicious types of people, Arabs or Muslim,
>> violently anti Government and so on, that diverts resources away from the
>> intelligence community who found this ricin stash (and who probably would be
>> observing radical Islamicists and Mc Veigh types). McVeigh types .. you mean like libertarians? :-)
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