The boat people schemozzle just got worse Reader Gab on the extraordinary unravelling of our border laws, thanks to what the Press Council orders journalists not to call illegal immigration: Andrew, more boat sightings, none of which have had any media citing. Following on from your blog entry dated 20th March, Boat arrivals keep soaring, there was another boat on 19th March making it the third boat for that day. Here's the list since your last column on the subject: 24 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselACV Dame Roma Mitchell, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel east of Ashmore Islands yesterday. 24 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselHMAS Pirie, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-north-west of Darwin yesterday. 24 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselHMAS Broome, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-west of Ashmore Islands on Friday. 22 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselHMAS Bundaberg, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north of Christmas Island this morning. 20 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselHMAS Pirie, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel west-north-west of Darwin overnight. 20 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselHMAS Ballarat, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-west of Christmas Island last night. 19 March 2013 - Border Protection Command intercepts vesselACV Triton, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-west of Cocos (Keeling) Islands overnight. That's a total of 364 people and 7 boats. In just five days.