"Since 2008, when Rudd and Gillard decided to pander to Manne and the progressive Left by dismantling Howard's painfully built but enormously effective border protection policies, almost 11,000 asylum seekers have arrived on more than 200 boats....While at least 220 people have died at sea and more than 1000 children have been put on boats, the number of special humanitarian visas provided to offshore asylum seekers has halved."
Many Aussie lefties used Howard's asylum seeker policies as a political 'call to arm'. And it worked.
I was talking to an Aussie lefty about this issue the other day. He said without hesitation "let them in, they're not criminals" and in the same breath talked about population pressures with regards to water & transport.
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