The four Vietnamese asylum seekers intercepted by Border Force off the coast of Broome last week come after 38 people were also picked up after two boat arrivals.
Two boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted off the Australian coast are being kept at sea rather than being sent immediately for offshore processing in Nauru, prompting questions about whether the government is attempting to send them home.
Australian Border Force declined to comment on all three boats, which were all intercepted in the last week. The federal government has previously intercepted asylum seekers on water and returned them to their country of departure. One government official, who also asked not to be named, said there was a strong possibility that Border Force was preparing to undertake a boat turn back operation like the one in August 2022 to Sri Lanka.In practice that would mean sending asylum seekers and their boat back either to its country of origin or country of departure.
Smaller numbers of would-be asylum seekers are being shipped to Australia in faster boats, dropped onshore and told not to alert authorities to their presence immediately so the people smugglers can get away.
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