If you had to choose between life or death, would you choose to stay and risk being killed, or choose to leave knowing that you venture into the unknown? It's a fight or flight response. I daresay most would choose to run, not knowing where they are running.

And I'm not saying that they don't have any responsibilities. But I'm sure they would be willing to start a fresh life and take on responsibility, a life with a purpose (willing to work for money, use their skills, etc) if we actually gave them a chance?

What would you do to educate and prepare yourself if you were in that situation? Would you just quickly run by the government, who probably wants you dead, and ask them for a visa because you want to start a new life in a country you don't know? Most likely not. Most do not know where they are headed.

I could guarantee you that asylum seekers would not want to leave their country, their culture, their heritage, their home, what they know, for a place that they do not, if they did not have to. They would not risk their lives to jump on a boat and sail across the world if they did not have to.

cassie022 wrote on Jun 6^th, 2012 at 9:07pm:


We don't really know that they're escaping death. We're told that, but it's rarely proven. I am doubtful because some family members come over then get the rest of their family to join them on some family reunion scheme. Also, there's been reports of some going back to the country they fled for a holiday.

In my own case, I would stay and fight to the death. Australia is my country and it is the duty of every able bodied man and women to defend it from retrograde thugs.

personwhocares wrote on May 31^st, 2012 at 9:58pm:


You are completely right, people have this idea that asylum seekers are breaking the law and therefore don't have any rights and should be sent back. It is legal in Australia to seek asylum by boat, they are neither engaging in illegal activity, nor are they immigrants. The Un refugee Convention recognises that refugees have a lawful right to enter a country for the purpose of seeking asylum, regardless of how they arrive of whether they hold valid travel of identity documents. Besides, their are often very good reasons why asylum seekers don't have these documents. It is often too dangerous for refugees to apply for a passport or exit visa or approach an Australian Embassy for a visa, as such actions could put their lives, and the lives of their families, at risk.

Paying people smugglers to bring you here by boat should be illegal.

There are enough genuine refugees that need help.

Send those supporting people smuggling straight back from whence they came.

Caitlin wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 11:57am:


The FriYAY dictionary defines a genuine refugee as...

A genuine refugee – someone that can’t afford to pay a people smuggler.

A genuine refugee – someone that is not on the TV so as to tug your bleeding heart strings.

A genuine refugee – someone that will die looking through a fence and never have the where-with-all to be able to pay a people smuggler.

I didn’t say it was illegal – don’t put words up I didn’t say so you can have a semantics tanty.

No, economic status doesn’t have a bearing on refugee status – AGAIN I never said it did. But it does have a baring on whether you can pay people, that deal in the misery of others, to bring you here.

People that pay people smugglers should be sent home.

The HARDER Australia makes it for Imigrants to come to Australia the harder it will be for our people to go to other countrys.

Maqqa wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 11:02am:


Pretty obvious conclusion. why would other countries allow our citizens to enter if we dont allow them to enter our country?

SOB

Maqqa wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 11:15am:


Perhaps you need a lil education

http://ocw.usu.edu/English/introduction-to-writing-academic-prose/inductive-and-...

or this one might be simpler

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gbc/reason/

SOB