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"Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to
detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. In recent months, the Trump
administration made deals with a number of third states to receive deported
non-citizens.
In Australia, the Labor government has similarly established new powers to
deport non-citizens to third states. The government signed a secretive deal
with Nauru in September, guaranteeing the small Micronesian island A$2.5
billion over the next three decades to accommodate the first cohort of
deportees.
In both countries, migrants can now be banished to states to which they have no
prior connection.
Last year in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour party
promised that the previous Conservative government’s plan to deport people to
Rwanda was “dead and buried”. Yet, Labour removed close to 35,000 people in
2024, an increase of 25% over the previous year.
Starmer has also proposed establishing “return hubs” in third countries for
people with rejected asylum claims.
Meanwhile, the far-right Reform Party has put forward a “mass deportation” plan
involving the use of military bases to detain and deport hundreds of thousands
of people, if it wins power in the next general election.
Similar policies may soon come to Europe, too. In May, the European Commission
published a proposal that would allow EU member states to deport people seeking
asylum to third countries where they have no previous connection.
The deportation of populations deemed problematic is not a new practice. For
centuries, states have used forms of deportation to forcibly remove people, as
Australia’s own history as a British penal colony illustrates.
Today, deportations are a staple of migration governance around the world.
However, the recent expansion of detention and deportations reflects an
accelerated criminalisation and punishment of non-citizens, tied to a rising
authoritarianism across purportedly liberal Western countries."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
