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Twenty years after mandatory detention, kids still being detained : Comments

By Sev Ozdowski, published 29/5/2012

The number of children in immigration detention will continue to grow as the government continues its inhumane and ineffective policies of mandatory detention.

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After four years, logged on to this forUm to see if there's any improvements in some people's racist attitude, but unfortunately some of our mates are still riding the same old horses of hate and racism. Haven't the school, you attended for years, helped you guys improving your behavior, if not, I guess it's time to think about it seriously and perhaps see each one of you a doctor, coz it's a DISEASE for heaven sake, get the medicine. Goodbye
Posted by Maftoon, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:21:30 PM
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Marilyn, I wrote this in response to you on your similar thread on 15/5:

<<< And of course, there is not a hint of response in your post to the main point I was making – that a real humanitarian would want to STOP onshore asylum seeking and concentrate their efforts on the most needy of refugees, to be accommodated through our formal immigration program.

You apparently have no concept of a holistic approach to this issue and can only see little bits of it in isolation to the bigger picture. >>>

You didn’t respond.

It wasn’t the first time I have pulled you up on this point.

Isn’t it the truth, which you can’t deny but won’t admit - you are so narrowly focussed and not in the slightest bit interested in the bigger picture.

By all indications, you just don’t care if asylum seeking goes on forever and escalates greatly, with all the horrible problems that it would bring, just as long as children are not held in detention.

By the way, I did say on the current thread:

<< For children, sure in some if not all instances, get them out of detention. >>

Did you not read that or did you just conveniently ignore it?

You couldn’t be seen to be agreeing with that horrible Ludwig now could you?!
Posted by Ludwig, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:50:22 PM
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Here's the thing Ludwig, there is no such thing as granting protection visas off shore because people have to be here to apply for them.

Jesus wept, will some of you learn the law.
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 3:11:01 AM
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learn the law.
Marylin,
Sensible & sober thinking people know plenty of jokes, they don't need these laws.
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 6:32:38 AM
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<< Here's the thing Ludwig, there is no such thing as granting protection visas off shore because people have to be here to apply for them. >>

What are you saying Marilyn – that if we has offshore detention, children could not be placed out of detention??

Of course they could, if we had a policy of placing them out of detention, or of doing so unless they strongly wanted to remain with their parents / guardians / group they came with.

There is no reason why an offshore mandatory detention program would necessarily mean that kids would be held in detention.

I’ll take your lack of response to the main point in my last post as absolute confirmation that you do indeed have a terribly narrow focus and no interest at all in anything to do with asylum seekers or refugees that is even slightly broader than children in detention.
Posted by Ludwig, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 7:23:14 AM
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<<We are talking about the illegal jailing of innocent children>>

Yes, lots and lots and lots of innocent children …

“Child refugees coming alone to Sweden aren’t always children. According to workers at several different refugee housing facilities, many people say that they are younger than they actually are in order to get better treatment and avoid deportation.Sometimes the difference in real age and given age can be upwards of ten years, leading to problems when it comes to schooling, medical care, and housing.
http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2010/mar/refugees_lie_about_age_to_avoid_deportation_but_at_a_price.aspx


And it’s not just happening in Sweden …

“Victoria's biggest youth immigration detention centre in Broadmeadows is filled with many asylum seekers claiming to be under 18 to escape the tougher regulations for adults, an investigation has discovered”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/asylum-seekers-pretending-to-be-teenagers-for-faster-processing/story-e6frf7jo-1226056354628

Seeking “asylum” is one of the biggest and baddest scams around.
Posted by SPQR, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 9:09:16 AM
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