&gt; This has significantly deterred economic migrants from entering via boat.<p>This is hard to say - under &quot;Operation Sovereign Borders&quot; all boat arrivals are military secrets, so there&#x27;s not much data on arrivals except what the government announces. The Australian navy has literally towed back boats in defiance of international laws (Wikipedia: &quot;In August 2015, minister Dutton stated that since December 2013, 633 people on 20 vessels have been subject to turnback operations, including a boat from Vietnam in July), so at least on that front the boats haven&#x27;t been quite stopped (they just don&#x27;t go all the way any more).<p>And as for the violation of human rights: you have a right to seek asylum. You&#x27;re conveniently forgetting that people who have been placed on Nauru by the Australian government have been murdered and raped, completely unnecessary.<p>Quote Wikipedia again:<p>&gt;In 2015, several staff members from the detention centre wrote an open letter claiming that multiple instances of sexual abuse against women and children had occurred.[6] The letter claimed that the Australian government had been aware of these abuses for over 18 months.[7] This letter added weight to the Moss review which found it possible that &quot;guards had traded marijuana for sexual favours with asylum seeker children&quot;.[8] [9][10]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nauru_Regional_Processing_Cent...</a><p>We can&#x27;t really judge the situation there because journalists or international observers are not allowed in.