What do you think of Christmas Island?

Of course

Why should an Australian cough up tax money to pay for the medical treatment of foreign strangers who are actively trying to break the laws of Australia?

Their home countries should be slapped with a large bill.

The world is full of people in dire straights, but it was not Australia that has created the horrible conditions so why should its citizens bear the responsibility of solving the problems of complete strangers and possible enemies?

It's hard for a person who thinks only in platitudes to realize that for every action a person takes, a direct and equal reaction will occur that will effect the person taking the action. It's amazing how human behavior follows the laws of physics that way.

My point is, that the immigrants will have a more negative effect on the indigenous population than the natives will have a positive effect on them. In other words, given time, Australians will become more like the immigrants, than immigrants will become like Australians.

In the 52 years since the first 3rd world people began immigrating from Puerto Rico to the mainland, some of whom are my cousins by the way, the cities of the eastern United States that they and the ethnic groups that followed them migrated to, have been changed from the envy of the world to smoldering heaps of rubbish, witness my home city of Paterson New Jersey as just one example.

Unfortunately, I predict that the same thing will happen to Australia if it practices a "moral" behavior regarding these poor souls. The cities that you've come to love, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, will be no more, and will suffer the same fate as my beloved Paterson.

I would also remind you that if an Australian was caught sneaking into the immigrant's country of origin, a mild prison detention would be the least of his worries.

I think that it's time for young people like yourself to realize that you are not gods who are above and beyond any consequences that your actions may cause. You are very human and must not let you're altruism turn into the hubris of Trojans and allow the wooden horse of immigration within your city gates thinking that your immune to ill effects.

So I think it behooves a responsible nation, for put good of its own people first and choose its immigrants carefully, lest it become more like the country the immigrants are fleeing than the country they are fleeing to.

Most are Tamils from Sri Lanka many of whmo stopped off at Malaysia or Indonesia but did not want to stay there even though there are many Tamils already there. They know that they can get handouts in Australia and can also plan insurgency from there to overthrow the Sri Lankan government. They are not real asylum seekers because they have been offered re-settlement in Sri Lanka and have refused. There is no more war there.

Also, they can settle in Tamil Nadu in India if they just cross a short stretch of sea. That's their homeland from where they crossed to Sri Lanka in the first place. Instead, they rather sail 20 times farther to Oz! Then they complain that they are badly treated by the nasty white man Struth!

this is an untruth!

they are well looked after at standards most could only dream about

in their daily lives in their home countries.

most of these people are economic refugees and even other refugees

dont like them as they are seen as queue jumpers,

they have raised cash to pay people smugglers and take the place

of

in the refugee quota of those who dont have access to money.

Yes its right they be kept in a compound, and i'm sure they are well looked after medically, if they have disease or infection the authorities have to look after them to stop it spreading. I don't know why illegal immigrants think they are owed anything by the countries they try to enter illegally. They should be fed watered and treated medically then returned home asap.

Why interr them, send them back straight away.