If Afghanistan is this safe, then why are they coming?

We're now into housing development in Afghanistan to stop what Labor's softening of our boat people laws has encouraged:

FAILED Afghan asylum seekers face deportation under a new agreement between Australia and the war-torn nation. In return, Australia will pay for a new housing project outside the capital, Kabul.

Australia will also fund reintegration support for those returning and improvements to the country's passport system.

Those Afghans considered genuine refugees will be free to stay in Australia but the agreement means potentially hundreds could now be turned away.

But here's the question that this deal raises: If parts of Afghanistan are safe enough to build a new housing project to house rejected asylum seekers, why do we take any Afghan refugees at all? Isn't it Afghanistan's responsibility to find new homes for its citizens fleeing less peaceful areas?

And that, in turn, raises a question about precisely why so many Afghans do come, and whether they are driven out or lured in.

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