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There’s no airport border ‘crisis’, only management failure of the Home Affairs department
The Conversation
(2019)
Abstract
In the past five years, more than 95,000 people who arrived by plane have lodged a claim for asylum in Australia, new statistics show.
Labor’s Immigration Spokesperson, Senator Kristina Keneally, has labelled this a “crisis”, stating:
Peter Dutton’s incompetence and recklessness has allowed people smugglers to run riot and traffic record-breaking numbers of people by aeroplane to Australia.
But the “crisis” is not that visa-holding travellers are flying to Australia, then later lodging a claim for asylum. It’s not unprecedented for tourists or students to later lodge a claim for asylum due to circumstances beyond their control.
Keywords
- asylum,
- refugee,
- immigration law,
- australia,
- airport asylum
Disciplines
- Law and
- Immigration Law
Publication Date
October 13, 2019
Citation Information
Jefferies, R and, Ghezelbash, D, ‘There’s no airport border “crisis”, only management failure of the Home Affairs department’, The Conversation (online, 13 October 2019)