
Border Force Investigating After Suspected Asylum Seekers Arrive on Australian Shores
Published on February 16, 2024
Australian Border Force (ABF) are investigating after a group of more than 20 men from Bangladesh and Pakistan told locals in a remote Western Australian town they arrived by boat. Border Force confirmed they were conducting an operation in the northwest of the state on Feb. 16, saying anyone who arrived by boat would never be able to settle permanently in Australia. The group of men were pictured in the town of Beagle Bay looking relaxed in a park and were in good health after travelling by boat from Indonesia, according to a local reporter at the scene from ABC. Residents discovered the men in the township, which is about 100 kilometres north of Broome, at about 9.30 a.m. in Western Australian time....
