Remigration: On Sending Them Back, By James Reed
Remigration is back on the menu. Of course, the main man set to do this is Trump with the deportation of illegals. However, surprisingly enough even Albo is getting in on the remigration thing, with new laws to deal with the High Court decision last year, which held that it was punishment to hold illegals who faced persecution back home, and that it was some sort of human rights abuse to even monitor these illegals, including criminals once they were released upon the Australian community.
Thus, Labor will pay other countries to take the illegal criminals that it has been unable to deport, and will travel ban those nations that do not take back their own illegals in the first place. It is one of the few sound policies to come from Labor, but something like this should have been put into place years ago. Naturally the immigration lobby and human righters were upset because their underlying philosophy is open borders and acceptance of the entire world, the universe if extra-terrestrial life came here.
Speaking of alien life, a poll in Austria, not to be confused with Australia, as was a letter I once got, which went via Austria, found that 50 percent of Austrians say "extensive remigration is urgently needed," and another 47 percent agree with the statement that "Austrians are being replaced by migrants." This is an indication that the cult of mass immigration may be meeting some much need resistance, just before the final curtain falls.
"A poll, conducted by Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), reveals that Austrian society is still firmly to the right on a number of key issues.
The poll found that 50 percent of Austria say "extensive remigraiton is urgently needed." Another 47 percent agree with the statement that "Austrians are being replaced by migrants."
A small percentage, 36 percent, say they would not want a Muslim as their neighbor. And even more people, albeit a slightly higher amount at 38 percent, are against Roma and Sinti groups living next to them. Another 1 in 10 said they would not want to live next to a Jewish person. However, a plurality of Austrians accept the idea of having "everyone" as a neighbor, reaching 45 percent. The polling seems to suggest there is a sharp split down the middle of Austrian society.
The war between Israel and Palestine may be a factor, with the poll also asking Austrians about the war there. Reportedly, 42 percent of respondents agree with the statement that "Israel's policy in Palestine is like that of the Nazis in the Second World War."
Israel-related anti-Semitism has also increased, said DÖW director Andreas Kranebitter, expressing dissatisfaction with the poll results and adding that "right-wing extremism in Austria should not be underestimated" and that it is a "democratic" problem.
The poll noted that those with an "extreme" right-wing attitude are much more likely to back certain statements, such as the belief that comprehensive remigration is necessary. However, half of all Austrians also happen to agree with this view in total, according to the poll.
The poll classified apprxoimately 10 percent of the Austrian population as "extreme" right, and of these people, 58 percent would vote for the Freedom Party of Austria, and 11 percent for the ÖVP. However, the left-wing SPÖ party actually would receive 17 percent from these voters.
Notably, the FPÖ explicitly supports remigration, which has been promoted at campaign rallies by the party's leader, Herbert Kickl. The party is currently in first place in polling and finished national elections in first place earlier this year. FPÖ has been blocked from power by other parties in the country, which have united against it to keep it out of government.
The poll was conducted on 2,198 Austrians. It is designed to measure right-wing sentiment in society and will be conducted every year two years.
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"Labor will pay countries to accept convicted criminals it has been unable to deport and revive its travel ban on nations that don't take back citizens against their will, under a package of laws the Albanese government wants to rush through parliament in a last-minute deal with the Coalition.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke has been holding backroom talks with the opposition to strike a deal on an issue that has plagued his government since last year's High Court ruling freed more than 200 immigration detainees into the community: what to do with people Australia doesn't want but who can't be deported.
The Albanese government has merged three bills to form an immigration package that allows it to put non-citizens back into detention once another country agrees to take them, and jail people for up to five years if they do not co-operate with moves to deport them.
But Labor's agenda has alarmed human rights groups, who described it as draconian and discriminatory, while lawyers warn the planned laws will be hit with flurry of court challenges. Greens senator David Shoebridge said it was the "most extreme migration legislation since the White Australia policy".
The first part of the package allows Australia to pay countries to accept non-citizens who have refused deportation to their home country, and reinstates an ankle bracelet and curfew monitoring regime for former detainees that was struck down by the High Court earlier this month.
The second gives authorities power to confiscate mobile phones and other items from people in immigration detention, which is similar to a law Labor voted down under the previous Coalition government in 2020.
The third revives a bill that was shelved earlier this year and bans entire nationalities from visiting Australia if their governments don't accept citizens being returned against their will, targeting countries such as Iran, Iraq, Russia and South Sudan.
That bill, which the Coalition and Greens rejected in March because of humanitarian concerns and hasty drafting, also allows people who don't co-operate with moves to deport them to be jailed for up to five years.
A year after the government last scrambled to rush tougher detention laws through parliament, Labor has again been negotiating with the Coalition, which has pushed for the tougher migration measures now scheduled for debate in the Senate on Wednesday.
Neither Burke nor the Coalition would speak publicly on Tuesday about the package as Labor seeks to avoid a repeat of the political firestorm that engulfed the government and led to two ministers being turfed from the Home Affairs portfolio earlier this year.
Labor has struggled to navigate the consequences of last year's High Court's NZYQ decision, which found indefinite immigration detention was unlawful because it amounted to the government usurping the court's role in issuing punishments. The Coalition hammered the government after 224 foreigners, many of whom have serious criminal convictions but had finished their prison sentences, were released from immigration detention.
Labor responded by imposing curfews and electronic monitoring on that cohort, but the High Court this month ruled that regime was also unconstitutional for the same reason.
A Senate inquiry last week heard that Burke's new deportation laws could apply to far more people than the cohort affected by the High Court's decision. Home Affairs officials gave no details about which countries Australia would send them to, nor how much they would be paid.
David Manne, whose law firm Refugee Legal led this month's successful High Court challenge, described the laws as "brutal measures" that would endanger people's rights and lives.
"Where people's most basic freedoms are so seriously threatened again – by seeking to circumvent the High Court's clear ruling that these conditions are punishment which is unconstitutional – we simply cannot rule out further legal challenges," he said.
Sanmati Verma, legal director of the Human Rights Law Centre, said the laws would affect thousands of people. The Albanese government, she said, began its term with smiling photos of a Tamil family in Queensland it saved from deportation.
"It will end its term by passing laws that would see people like Priya and Nades jailed and permanently separated from their children," Verma said.
The Refugee Council of Australia also hit out at Labor's plans to give authorities power to confiscate phones, SIM cards and computers that advocates say are important for detainees' wellbeing as well as their ability to record abuse in detention.
"Mobile phones are a lifeline for people in detention," chief executive Paul Power said. "They are essential in connecting people with family, friends and lawyers. It is a means of keeping up with the news, reading novels, playing games, writing and listening to music. These all help with overcoming isolation in harsh detention conditions."
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