Deportation or Jail: Labor Government Rushes New Laws to Stitch up Immigration Gap

Detainees who don’t cooperate with the process to deport them will be jailed for up to five years under tough new laws being rushed through Parliament.

Three asylum seekers gesture to protesters holding a pro-refugee rights rally from their hotel room where they have been detained in Melbourne on June 13, 2020, after they were evacuated to Australia for medical reasons from offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images

The Albanese Labor government has proposed a tough new regimen for dealing with illegal detainees ahead of a High Court case next month, which could cause further problems for the government on the immigration front.

On March 26, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles introduced the Migration Amendment (Removals and Other Measures) Bill into Parliament.