Posted on 02/03/2016 1:25:38 PM PST by Lorianne
Australia's High Court threw out a challenge to offshore immigration detention camps on Wednesday, clearing the way for the deportation of dozens of infants born in Australia to detained asylum seekers.
The court rejected a legal test case brought by an unidentified Bangladeshi woman that challenged Australia's right to deport detained asylum seekers to the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru.
The detention centre on Nauru houses about 500 people and has been widely criticised by the United Nations and human rights agencies for harsh conditions and reports of systemic child abuse.
The Bangladeshi woman was on a boat intercepted by Australian authorities in October 2013. She was detained on Australia's remote Christmas Island and later sent to Nauru.
She gave birth to a daughter after she was transferred to Australia for medical treatment in 2014 and has remained there with her child
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It seems like every Western country in the world is waking up and wising up on immigration other than the good old USA.
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!
This judge is smarter than most Judges.
Good decision.
Dishonest Journalism. Deliberately putting forth a straw man and disguising it as a "news story."
Why didn’t the woman get in the immigration line and apply legally? This is it, the illegals always think their better than anyone else. They have to butt in front of the line, or in this case just barge right into other countries while totally expecting the taxpayers to provide for them. Why didn’t she barge into an African or Muslim country? Is it because those countries do not provide welfare?
The true context is that infants enjoy no special birthright protection in Australia and are being deported with their parents.
Australia used to have birthright citizenship like we do, but they changed the law when they saw it was being abused. So did the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. European countries don’t have that law. The only two First World countries with automatic birthright citizenship are the U.S. and Canada. Time to scrap it ourselves.
I thought Canada already dumped theirs.
My mistake. They still have it.
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