Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil will tomorrow head to Western Sydney following mounting community pressure over the repatriation of ISIS brides in the area. ElizaEdNews 9News MORE:
A Sydney mayor has again lashed plans to resettle repatriated Islamic State wives and their children in the city's western suburbs, firmly stating "we don't want them."was announced Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil would visit western Sydney tomorrowA cohort of more than a dozen family members arrived last month, with another 40 or so to be repatriated in the coming month.
"People need to understand the community out here believes there has been an injustice done, and this is the first of many people that could be repatriated," he said. "We know many people left this country to fight with ISIS. We don't want a precedent to be set and western Sydney to be a dumping ground.
"In other countries, you get five years for aiding and abetting. In Australia, it seems the precedent is you can come here and go to McDonald's.Three-quarters of Sydney's Assyrian and Chaldean population live in Fairfield. The two minority groups have suffered persecution at the hands of Islamic State.READ MORE:"We want to make sure the victims of ISIS' feelings are taken into account.
"And the general Australian community wants to see justice and we don't want to set a precedent for the future - if we go to war, we don't want people who go and fight against their home to be free to come back."
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