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Australia’s Immigration Detention System “the Worst”

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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 world.
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