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Thursday, 18 March 2021, 8:31 am
The issue of deporting people who have completed
sentences in prison for criminal offences is a vexed one. It
has been brought sharply into focus by the application of
Australia’s so-called s501 policy which since 2014 has
seen the deportation to New Zealand of around 2,000 people
who had previously been sentenced to a term of twelve months
or more in prison. Events over the last week regarding the
apparent deportation of a 15-year-old child have sharpened
that focus further and aroused some anger, although the
precise circumstances of that case are still somewhat
unclear.
It is an accepted principle that countries
She said she had not spoken to Prime Minister Scott Morrison about the teenager’s deportation.
“He knows my position on the deportation policy,” she said. “So actually regardless of whether or not we’re dealing with a minor or someone who’s older, I have a specific objection to the fact that we have people being deported from Australia who we consider to be Australians.”
The boy was deported alone, and it s understood he is the first minor to be sent back under the scheme.
Under current Australian laws, visa holders who are sentenced to at least 12 months in jail face mandatory deportation. For New Zealand citizens who have spent the majority of their lives in Australia, however, the practice can see them returned to a country they have little connection to.
Australia deporting 15-year-old Kiwi won t be the last say advocates warning of escalation in notoriously retrograde policy
16 Mar, 2021 04:39 AM
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Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
A 15-year-old boy sent back from Australia won t be the last warns a human rights advocate working on the Gold Coast with Kiwi youth she says are currently being threatened with deportation.
And legal experts are calling what is believed be the first case of a minor sent back across the Tasman a disturbing escalation of a notoriously retrograde immigration policy - one that likely breaches international human rights obligations.
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