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| UpdatedThe Immigration Department is under fire over plans to spend a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to move public servants to a new office nine kilometres away.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, tax, immigration, community-and-society, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedRefugees on Manus Island and Nauru have not yet been through vetting processes to determine whether they can resettle in the US, the Immigration Department tells a Senate committee.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Immigration Department cuts the length of time asylum seekers have to apply for protection visas from one year to 60 days in a move it is feared could deny up to 11,000 people the ability to claim asylum.
Topics: immigration, refugees, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedMuhammad Ali's son is detained by immigration officials at a Florida airport and questioned about his ancestry and religion, a family friend says.
Topics: immigration, us-elections, donald-trump, community-and-society, united-states, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedAustralian children's author Mem Fox has made more than 100 trips to the US over the years, but now says she is unlikely to ever go there again after her wrongful detainment by immigration officials at LA Airport earlier this month.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, author, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, united-states
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US President Donald Trump has again implied that countries in Europe are not safe to visit. Speaking at the annual conservative CPAC convention, Mr Trump doubled down on his past comments about rising crime in Sweden, Germany and Paris.
Topics: world-politics, terrorism, immigration, united-states
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South Sudanese and now-Australian citizen James Nien survived war to create a new life, but has had to turn to crowdfunding to bring his wife and young daughter to live with him.
Topics: refugees, immigration, people, rockhampton-4700, kenya
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Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedA tall crop of traditional African maize is being hand-harvested by a group of former refugees and volunteers who have found a new way to ease migrants in to Australian communities.
Topics: community-development, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, immigration, refugees, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedIndonesia's Child Protection Commission demands the Australian Government pay compensation to a group of Indonesians allegedly jailed in adult prisons while they were minors.
Topics: courts-and-trials, immigration, world-politics, indonesia, australia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to former Mexican presidential adviser Dr Luis Gomez Romero about the current state of relations between the US and Mexico.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, immigration, united-states, mexico
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| UpdatedMexico reacts with anger to a Trump administration plan to deport non-Mexican illegal immigrants over their border if they entered the US from the southern neighbouring nation.
Topics: world-politics, community-and-society, immigration, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states, mexico
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Three Pakistani seafarers who jumped over the side of their livestock ship into Fremantle harbour in an apparent asylum bid will be deported, the Immigration Department says.
Topics: immigration, sea-transport, fremantle-6160
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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton backtracks on his comments on the refugee resettlement deals between Australia and the US, saying he has "been clear that it's not a people swap".
Topics: federal-government, immigration, australia, united-states
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A class action against the Australian Government alleging Indonesian boys jailed for people smuggling were held in adult prisons will be heard in a Jakarta District Court today.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, courts-and-trials, indonesia, australia
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Humanitarian groups call for changes to the Federal government's refugee policy, wanting to see more settled in country areas.
Topics: immigration, refugees, armidale-2350
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Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, uralla-2358
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| UpdatedThe Foreign Minister and the Immigration Minister appear to be at odds about whether the US refugee resettlement deal was part of a people swap.
Topics: refugees, immigration, federal-government, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedUS Supreme Court justices appear split over the rights of a Mexican family to sue over the death of their teenage son, who was shot while on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border by a US Border Patrol officer standing on US soil.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, immigration, united-states, mexico
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A lawyer for a man who fled Iran seeking asylum and is now in Papua New Guinea tells Beverley O'Connor his client is effectively "stateless".
Topics: refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea, fiji, iran-islamic-republic-of, pacific
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| UpdatedA royal commission will quiz senior government officials about the Commonwealth's response to a report into the sexual abuse of children in immigration detention centres.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, immigration, community-and-society, sydney-2000