Record numbers of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by air

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Around 80 people per day are seeking protection upon arrival in Australia. 9News

The Sydney Morning Herald reports close to 95,000 visitors have arrived at Australian airports seeking asylum in the past five years, with that number progressively increasing each year.Labor's home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Kenneally obtained the figures in response to questions in the Senate.

Labor claims the vast majority are found to not be legitimate refugees and suspect an increase in the number of trafficking and scam incidents coincides with the influx of asylum seekers. Those rejected for asylum are placed on two to three-year bridging visas and it is feared they are more susceptible to exploitation in the workplace.

 

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The doors been opened, loopholes in place, now watch them all refuse to leave.

Never ends!

Condoms should be more widely available

Go home, Australia owes you nothing.

Send them back on the next plane out. Cheaper than anything else.

Damn plane people.

Time Dutton stepped in a sent them all back. NOW

Cheaper to close the doors

Perhaps some are fleeing from the Chinese concentration camps. I hope people start to smuggle them out of China. Poor people 🙁❤❤

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