http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYGkVtqY-0 Australia’s Christmas Island detention center. From time to time it’s useful to look at how other migration-destination countries deal with illegal immigration—if only so we can feel better about the United States. Case in point: human rights advocates have told Australia’s Parliament that the country has the harshest immigration detention system in the western [...]
Tag Archives: asylum
Australia’s Immigration Detention System “the Worst”
October 9, 2008 – 9:28 am
Asylum-Seekers’ Fate Hinges on “Luck of the Draw”
October 5, 2008 – 6:44 am
You might think that immigrants fleeing persecution in their home countries would face a fair system, but News 21’s Mira Jang found things to be radically different in a recent cover story for the Los Angeles CityBeat. While some judges deny asylum in almost every case, others grant asylum even in the shakiest cases. From [...]
