mothra wrote on Jan 8
th, 2019 at 12:40am:
I'm truly heartened to see so many of you outraged at Alqunun's imminent threat but to hang crap on Thailand wen we have returned so many people to the risk of death and indeed death is incredibly myopic.
Thailand is no worse than we are.
OK seems any support for her case is a waste of time ... off she goes home.
It seems to me that she is a more genuine asylum seeker than most of those who end up in detention on on Manus after coming by people smugglers boats via the back door.
Those Australia have sent home have been deemed by authorities not to be genuine refugees .... but economic migrants.
That she gets stopped & detained in Thailand and looks like getting sent home from there despite having the relevant visas/passport speaks volumes about how complicit the Indonesian Govt is in allowing hundreds to fly into & stay temporarily there, then get into boats to try & get here.
The Thais should have let her travel on to Australia & her case dealt with here.
After all she could be just like the thousands you say that come by plane and live(hide) happily in the community.
And until her visa had expired ... she'd be here legally.
Oh & btw .... most of the asylum seekers that try to come here & end up on Manus/Nauru are males between 18 & 35 ..... in comparison very few are women & children.
You should also be berating Thailand ... instead of saying Aust has sent people home so it's no better than Thailand.