Dear oh dear, the luvvies pretending to care.

You want to know what Labor thinks of asylum seekers look to the black and white of the legislation they write, much more eloquent and revealing than the faux wailings and crocodile tears.
smacking over foreigners is writ deep in Labor DNA, all the way back to the miners Union against the Chinese in the goldfields.
The sainted Whitlam didn't want a thing to do with Vietnamese boat people saying “I'm not having these smacking Vietnamese Balts coming into the country with their religious and political prejudices against us". Bob Hawke said they should be sent back, it took Fraser to rectify that Labor policy.
Keating another Labor luminary in response to Cambodian boat people legislated mandatory detention.
Labor and its trade unions have always been the party of xenophobia.
Rudd was never a labor or a union man, he proved that by relaxing border controls and of course the predictable and inevitable happened, Gillard after knifing him returned to Labor orthodoxy and introduced the no advantage test to remove the incentive for queue jumping.
Rudd back in had learnt his lesson to toe the Labor line and and he topped all previous labor legislation with the most onerous yet, including towbacks and removing or reducing allowances for those he hadn't been able to lock up in the reopened, to use the words of the cretins, "concentration camps".
Labor owns the legislation smacking over asylum seekers and has a long history and a recent history of doing so. They are by any measure worse than the LNP, and they are able to do so confident that luvvie cretins being possessed of massive hypocricy and a great deal of idiocy and ignorance of what Labor does will continue to support them. No matter what they legislate.
They do what they wouldn't condone from any other party.