Emma wrote on Jul 21
st, 2012 at 1:03am:
You don't process them. That is what I am telling you. You refuse to process all boat arrivals without visas. AVRAM
OK - I'll ask you again.
HOW do you do this Avram?
You have two options.
You refuse them any entry and return them to point of departure.
Or you can imprison them for attempting to enter the country illegally and then deport them.
You refuse to consider them for asylum.
If they are Sri Lankan you report them to Sri Lanka.
As soon as you set the examples then the message becomes clear.
It is like in 2008 when Hamas were thinking they could fire rockets at us and all we would respond is occasional attack. They said we would never send in ground forces.
Well when we sent in thousands of soldiers into Gaza and started to shoot them - all of a sudden the rockets stopped.
It's the same thing you set your early example you are serious then they will see.
If they know in Australia all they get is imprisonment and then deportation and refuse to process like we do in Israel they will go somewhere else!
We are a compassionate country unlike israel and we take refugees. We dont want to turn them away - we want them to stop drowning.