RETURN TO SENDER/ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

[HairOfTheDog]

Do you (I mean the collective you, everyone) find it a little weird that any if us lay claim to a certain little patch of the Earth? Even more ironic that we claim and protect it as ours when we stole it from someone else..

I don't really find it weird, more of a necessity in some ways.

I mean, I can imagine no more countries, it's easy if I try. But, I can also easily imagine a lot of problems associated with a border-free global society.

Anyway, saw a story today about the Sri Lankan asylum seekers held at sea by Australia's immigration authorities and the surrounding controversy.

Story:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/...?hpt=hp_t4

Operation Sovereign Borders seems to face similar challenges and criticisms as the US's deportation policies.

I thought that the PNG processing center sounded like a good idea to curb illegal immigration and increase the efficiency of asylum processing for Australia when it was first announced. Doesn't sound like the reality of how it's working lines up with the government's marketing of the concept? Or, maybe the critics of the operation are painting it with too broad a brush? Either way, managing immigration in a way that's considered "right" or "fair" by all of the existing citizens and wanna-be citizens alike seems an impossibility for any country, IMO.