This thread and many of its ilk really go along way to demonstrate how suckered we are as a society by mainstream media. Seriously.

Most asylum seekers come by boat?

REALITY: Statistics from 2008 showed at least 13 asylum seekers arrive through Australian airports daily, more than 32 times the number of boat people supposedly ''flooding'' across our maritime borders in that year. A total of 4768 ''plane people'', more than 96 per cent of applicants for refugee status, arrived in that year on legitimate tourist, business and other visas - compared with 161 who arrived by boat during the same period.

REALITY: According to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, the number of settlers - people entitled to permanent residence, including people arriving in Australia on humanitarian programs - between July 2010 and June 2011 came from more than 200 countries and totalled 127,460.
Most were born in one of the following four countries:
• New Zealand (20.2 per cent)
• China (11.5 per cent)
• United Kingdom (8.6 per cent)
• India (8.3 per cent)

So what does that mean? Fuck the stories about boat people - we should be stopping the arrivals of Kiwis on Planes. :P

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/te...#ixzz2bPedJs49