A lot of countries you need to earn the privilege to immigrate into. Their people have worked hard to make their nations a quality of life.
Just allowing lame immigrants to cross a border and have them do nothing but live on the streets waiting to be provided for is just wrong and irresponsible.

Lisa Jones wrote on Sep 26^th, 2023 at 8:40am:


They were also born in Australia

Some changes are happening ....

Government launches crackdown on 'criminals' exploiting visa system

By political reporter Nicole Hegarty
Posted 11h ago
11 hours ago
, updated 9h ago

Bias_2012 wrote on Oct 4^th, 2023 at 11:07pm:


But Pecker will say they are 'asylum seekers'. 

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has returned to form in 2024 in such a catastrophically hapless and hopeless manner in parliament that he has almost single-handedly dulled the impact of Anthony Albanese’s $10bn a year tax cut giveaway.

Last year, under immense pressure over the way he and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil had handled the release of 149 criminals from immigration detention after an order from the High Court, he was unable to answer question after question in parliament and faced calls to resign.

Over the Christmas break, Giles had time to get across the detail of his political disaster, including an undertaking he made in parliament in November that all victims of the 149 offenders would be contacted to allay their fears.


Three months ago in response to opposition questions, Giles was giving an undertaking in parliament that all victims would be contacted and he had all summer to check to see if his parliamentary promise had been fulfilled.

Inexplicably, he was unable to answer a question from Peter Dutton, admittedly at the end of a long and trying week of questions, as to whether the family members of a woman murdered by one of the released detainees had been contacted and offered reassurance of their security. Dodging any answers, he even suggested that victims could “make contact” with state, territory or federal government officials or even ring the 1800RESPECT number for reassurance.

Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, Giles then asks the Opposition Leader for the family’s telephone number so he could call them!

Dutton, who had managed to become politically dominant at the end of last year because of this issue, was then in the position of knowing more about his portfolio than the minister, his office or the department.

Labor MPs as a whole were dumbfounded, and all the tax-cut mojo was lost as Giles once again sat down and grabbed his phone seeking more information.

Yet, wait for it, after question time the minister’s position became even more pathetic: Victorian state officials HAD contacted the victim’s family, alerted them to the murderer’s release on November 24 and the family then contacted O’Neil’s Home Affairs Department seeking information of the murderer’s whereabouts.

Home Affairs responded with a standard letter that they could not disclose the whereabouts or status of the murderer to protect his “privacy”.

The family was appalled and is still fearful and uncertain.

Giles, too, looks frightened and uncertain as his complete negligence in getting basic facts months after making ministerial undertakings fuel reasonable calls for his sacking or resignation.

DENNIS SHANAHAN

A child rapist who attacked his stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth was allowed to stay in Australia as a result of Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’ direction giving leniency to foreign-born criminals with ties to the nation, with overseeing tribunal member and ex-Labor speaker Anna Burke saying the direction “clearly states” tolerance for such offenders.

The ministerial direction has also played a role in at least two cases of migrant criminals who were allowed to stay after they claimed they were Aboriginal or accepted as Aboriginal by association to their romantic partners and children.

In all cases, the offenders had failed Australia’s character test and were going to be deported ­before the Administrative ­Appeals Tribunal reinstated their visas citing Direction 99.

As Labor and Mr Giles’ political crisis over their lack of control over foreign offenders worsens, The Australian has uncovered dozens of cases in front of the AAT where criminals were able to stay in Australia as a result of Mr Giles’ Direction 99.

Aborigin­ality is now becoming an excuse for foreign nationals wanting to stay, with one Cambodian-born criminal saying his deportation would split him from his Aboriginal partner and his five stepchildren and therefore “split up an Aboriginal family”. A New Zealander said an elder had certified him as a member of the Yorta Yorta community and he had links to Aboriginal Australia through his two children.

In the child rape case, a New Zealand-born man – referred to as CHCY – kept his visa two months ago despite being found guilty of raping and assaulting his 14-year-old stepdaughter multiple times while his wife was in hospital giving birth to his youngest child.

In her judgment in March, Ms Burke – who was speaker of the House of Representatives under Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd – said that the man had ties to Australia via his wife, children and parents, and that Direction 99 was a reason behind her decision to stop attempts to cancel his visa.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/andrew-giles-ministerial-direct...