asylum seekers fraud.

What a fraud these 'pretend' asylum seekers have perpetrated on the Aussie taxpayer.This Federal Government must be ether asleep or totally bound hand and foot by the outdated, archaic UN convention on Refugees. I wonder how many other Non-Tamil 'asylum seekers' fit this category.From today's Australian:

'Sri Lanka's security supremo has called on Canberra to get tough with asylum-seekers amid claims most return home within a year.

The call by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa came as terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said 70 per cent of Tamils granted asylum in Australia and Canada had returned to Sri Lanka for a visit.

Mr Rajapaksa said the navy and police, now with the command of the seas around the island, had stopped the flow of boats from Sri Lanka's shores. "We have not recently had a single case of people going from here in boats to seek asylum," he said.

Now, instead, people travel to third countries by air and set off from there, he told The Australian.

Mr Rajapaksa, the brother of the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda, said that after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May last year after a 26-year insurgency there was no reason for Tamils to seek asylum overseas. "There is no reason why anybody should leave Sri Lanka out of any fear. They have the freedom to live anywhere," said the former lieutenant colonel, who narrowly escaped a suicide bombing attempt on his life four years ago. "When people come to know that countries are sympathetic and give them asylum, it is very difficult to stop."