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November 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Amnesty International’s refugee spokesman, Dr. Graham Thom, welcomed the
development.
“This welcome move to community processing, where bridging visas will be used
as claims are assessed, will finally put Australia in step with all other
Western countries.The system of indefinite mandatory detention is
discriminatory and brings further suffering to people who had fled
unimaginable circumstances,” he said.
He added, however, that legislation should be introduced to “back… up”
the change. “We need an assurance from the Australian government that people
who have fled persecution and violence, if detained, will only be held in
detention for the absolute minimum necessary time to undertake basic checks,”
he said.
Scott Morrison, the shadow minister for Immigration and Citizenship, was among
those who criticised the step, saying that the government had “set back the
clock on border protection” and was simply “opening up a sea lane for people
smugglers”.
The mandatory detention of those who enter the country without a valid visa
has long been one of Australia’s more controversial policies.
The new move follows the failure of a plan to “swap” asylum seekers arriving
in Australia for registered refugees awaiting resettlement from camps in
Malaysia. Julia Gillard’s government struck the deal in the hope of
relieving pressure on the detention system, which currently holds nearly
4,000 individuals in centres across the country, but it was rejected as
unlawful by Australia’s High Court at the end of August.
The step also marks the start of a unification of visa processes for boat and
air arrivals, the latter of whom are often already given bridging visas.
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