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MORE than 70 per cent of failed asylum-seekers who have arrived in Australia since boats started coming in late 2008 have had their cases overturned on review, undermining attempts by the government to end the people-smuggling trade by denying residency to boatpeople….
According to the Immigration Department 910 failed asylum-seekers’ cases were reviewed between October 2008 and March this year.
Of those, 641 – or 70.4 per cent – successfully argued that their negative decisions should be overturned. The figures do not include the wave of failed asylum claims that can now be pursued in the courts following last year’s High Court ruling – a development that is sure to result in more failed cases being overturned. Last year the government was warned the high success rate of asylum claims was one of the reasons people-smugglers were targeting Australia instead of other parts of the world, where the success rate was lower…”
Why? The answer is here
A few unelected people are carrying out their own agenda, and together with the courts they’re virtually immune to public opinion.
