That they are taken in then put into detention centers.
They take illegal asylum seekers to Christmas Island.
Use the links below for information on asylum seekers.
Julia Gillards' new policy on asylum seekers is to send asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to East Timor for processing. Whilst this is her current plan, details have not been finalised with the leaders of East Timor, and this may yet change.
Phosphate mining, a detention camp for Australian asylum seekers, and (until recently) money laundering.
Asylum Seekers - film - was created on 2009-02-05.
Australia's position still is that anyone trying to get in without a valid visa is kept in detention. Asylum seekers, mostly trying to come in by boats from Indonesia, are usually detained in either Papua New Guinea or on the (also distant) island of Manus.
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People Smugglers think of asylum seekers as items to smuggle into countries.
Australia spent $142 millions on detention centers and asylum seekers.
Well, for those whom this may concern, asylum seekers are also known as refugees.
Among all 44 highly industrialized nations USA has the highest number of prospective asylum seekers (83,400), total number of asylum seekers for Europe were 355,500 and Australia and New Zealand had 16,100 applications for asylum. According to Refugee Council of Australia there are a total of 9,37,000 asylum seekers in the world.
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