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December 18th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Politics: Asylum boat numbers are on the rise. Picture: Toby Zerna
Source: The Daily Telegraph
RECENT attention has centred on the increasing number of vessel arrivals following Labor’s switch to onshore processing but concerns are now being raised about the size of the asylum seeker boats coming to Australia.
The 250 people on the boat that capsized off Indonesia at the weekend would have been the biggest to arrive in Australia since Labor took power in 2007 had it made it to its planned destination, Christmas Island.
It would have dwarfed the previous largest in June 2009 when 193 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers were intercepted on a boat.
However, the boat load at the weekend was still well short of the vessel carrying 421 asylum seekers involved in the SIEV-X sinking in 2001. It claimed 353 lives.
While both parties offered condolences instead of politics yesterday, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison did note more people were being loaded on to vessels.
“The large number of people reported to have been on this vessel is especially concerning and confirms the trend we have seen this year of the people smugglers putting more and more people on to every boat,” he said.
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Several months ago boats held 50 or 70 asylum seekers. Passenger numbers are now rising above 100 per boat.
On December 16, a boat with 167 passengers was intercepted off Christmas Island while two boats carrying 110 and 103 arrived earlier in the month.
The government had forecast arrivals of 600 a month under onshore processing but December is now shaping as the biggest since August 2001, when 1645 asylum seekers arrived.
Total arrivals sit at just less than 900 three weeks into the month, after November’s 892 arrivals.
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