Three federal Labor MPs and two Labor senators join calls for large chunks of their own government's migration bill to be scrapped.
Three federal Labor MPs and two Labor senators have contributed to a joint parliamentary report calling for large chunks of the government's migration bill to be scrapped.Three federal Labor MPs and two Labor senators have joined calls for large chunks of their own government's migration bill to be scrapped.
The committee said the government should not impose mandatory prison sentences on people who do not comply with deportation orders, one of several amendments it called for.That committee on Monday heard personal testimonies from people who feared deportation and calls from several human rights organisations to abandon the bill entirely.The bill would give the immigration minister new powers to force the hand of people who are difficult to deport.
The bill would also allow the minister to reverse refugee assessments, and to impose travel bans on countries if they refuse to facilitate deportations. It also said the bill should be restricted to a tightly-limited cohort of non-citizens who are actively involved in deportation efforts, rather than potentially to any visa holder.
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