Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 1
st, 2015 at 7:17pm:
Yeah, considering about three ASs out of thousands have gone home. Geeze, you ever think about what you post? Dear me, my dog has more smarts!
Try again, numpty!!!
More than 600 asylum seekers return home voluntarily
MORE than 600 asylum seekers have returned home voluntarily or through forced repatriation since the Coalition declared Australia’s borders closed, The Saturday Telegraph can reveal.
The figures, that until now had been kept secret, confirm that for the first time since 2008 the tide of boat arrivals has begun to turn, and the number of people returning home is now exceeding arrival numbers.
Figures from the Immigration Department show 606 people have returned or were forced to return to their place of origin since the start of the Coalition’s controversial Operation Sovereign Borders policy.
Of those,
240 from mainland detention or community detention left voluntarily, having given up hope of being granted asylum, and 168 were flown home by the government.
A total of
198 asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru had also asked authorities to be returned home after realising they would not be settled in Australia.
The Daily Telegraph has also obtained
Immigration Department research from last year that reveals only half of all asylum seekers who arrived since 2008 — about 30,000 — claimed on their applications that they had come to Australia to flee persecution.A survey of people being held in detention revealed most arrivals had sought to come to Australia because they believed the previous Labor government would let them stay. Under Labor, there was a 90 per cent acceptance rate.The overwhelming finding from the survey conducted during Labor’s time was that the door was open to refugees and they would not be retuned.
Today will be 100 days since the last boat successfully arrived in Australian territory.
The asylum-seeker return figures suggest the Coalition’s policy, despite being labelled cruel by the Greens and refugee advocacy groups, has smashed hope for asylum seekers coming by boat that they would ever settle permanently in Australia.
Immigration minister Scott Morrison said his military-led operation would now enter a third phase with signs that the first two phases had succeeded.
He confirmed he would now turn his attention to the 30,000 people still in detention centres or in community detention and awaiting processing.
While pleased with the border security results, Mr Morrison said there was “no room for complacency”.
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