Confidential documents reveal that Palestinians leaving Gaza went through eight stages of identity verification, challenging Coalition attacks against the government.
All Palestinians who received Australian visas were referred to ASIO, according to confidential advice to the Immigration Minister, in revelations that challenge the Coalition’s claim that people fleeing Gaza were not vetted by security agencies.
“Mike Burgess made the extraordinary admission that not all visa applications are coming before ASIO for security checks,” Dutton said in August. Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan doubled down on Friday, saying: “This is further proof that this whole process has been a complete and utter mess. It is now crystal clear that proper security checks were not put in place because the process was rushed.”
They would have face-to-document checks at the Rafah border crossing, by the airline upon boarding a flight and by Australian Border Force officials on arrival.
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