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| Subject: Human Rights Commission: Keeping asylum seeker children in detention doesn't stop people smugglers - so why do it? Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:45 pm | |
| The former and current ministers for immigration and border security, Chris Bowen and Scott Morrison, agree on one thing: that asylum seeker children are not detained to deter people smuggling. Rather, it appears that patrol boats and naval frigates, commanded by a three star general, and a refusal to allow refugees to settle here, have reduced the number of boats reaching Australia.
Why detain children if this policy is not aimed at deterring people smuggling, nor stopping the tragic drowning of asylum seekers at sea?
The commission's inquiry into the impact of mandatory immigration detention on children is in its final stages and, last week, the draft report was provided to the Department of Immigration for comment. Here are some of the facts underpinning our inquiry.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/human-rights-commission-keeping-asylum-seeker-children-in-detention-doesnt-stop-people-smugglers--so-why-do-it-20141007-10rcz3.html#ixzz3FVQcpBg5 |
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