Why release immigration detainees – WHAT AN ABSOLUTE JOKE !!
SO MUCH WASTED MONEY AND RESOURCES THAT COULD BE MUCH BETTER SPENT ON HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, POLICING and the things that REALLY matter to Australians. C’mon GET REAL !!
From the Courier Mail:
Former police officers, border force and home affairs officials have been recruited to assess the cohort of convicted criminals released from immigration detention and advise who should be locked back up.
The federal government has established a new Community Protection Board with a range of law enforcement experts to provide “evidence-based recommendations” about how to manage the now 149 former detainees released in the wake of last month’s High Court ruling against their indefinite detention.
The board, which met for the first time in Canberra on Monday, will advise Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram and the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles on how to strengthen community safety.
This will include individual assessments of “appropriate” measures, which may include preventative detention, community safety supervision orders, electronic monitoring devices and curfews, and stringent visa conditions.
In a statement confirming the formation of the board, Mr Giles and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the government and relevant agencies would “continue to work constructively through these complex challenges and meet the legal obligations resulting from the High Court’s decision”.
Last week Labor passed legislation allowing the government to apply to the courts to detain, control and monitor non-citizens released from indefinite detention.
As the government prepares applications to have the court detain the highest risk offenders in the cohort, six men have already been arrested since walking free from immigration detention.
The cohort were released following the High Court’s November 8 ruling that a stateless Rohingya man convicted of child sex offences who cannot be deported, known only as NZYQ, could not be held indefinitely immigration detention after serving his prison sentence.
Since then, a 36-year-old Eritrean-born man was arrested after allegedly failing to comply with a curfew on December 8, the Australian Federal Police confirmed on Friday.
On Thursday a former Sudanese child soldier, William Yekrop, was picked up by police in Queensland after it was realised there was a warrant to return to jail for allegedly breaching his parole conditions prior to being placed in immigration detention in 2012.
The previous day Sudanese-born Abdelmoex Mohamed Elawad, 45, was arrested and charged by the Australian Federal Police after he allegedly breached curfew conditions of his Commonwealth visa on 1 December and also stole luggage from a traveller who was asleep in a Melbourne airport terminal.
Earlier last week 33-year-old Emran Dad, who was the former ringleader of a child exploitation gang, became the third criminal arrested since his release after allegedly breaching his reporting obligations and making contact with minors.
Prior to this sex predator, Afghan refugee Aliyawa Yawari, was remanded in custody on two charges related to his alleged indecent assault of a woman in Adelaide just weeks after the 65-year-old was released from Yongah Hill detention facility in Western Australia.
NSW police have also charged another released detainee, 45-year-old Mohammed Ali Nadari, for drug possession after he was allegedly found with cannabis.
Why release immigration detainees in the first place – Pathetic
Why release immigration detainees at all – Insane
