Fears Baby Asha About To Be Removed

[icyfroth]

Asylum seeker baby Asha's advocate says she has been banned from seeing Asha's mother by immigration police, as fears mount she is about to be taken away.

Twelve-month-old Asha was taken to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane suffering burns she received from boiling water while in detention on Nauru.

Although she has recovered, doctors and nurses at the hospital are refusing to discharge Asha unless she is provided with a safe home.

Former Nauru detention centre caseworker and family advocate Natasha Blucher says when she spoke to the baby's mum on Saturday morning, something was wrong.

'I called mum at 9am, and she told me that about 7am, some immigration officers had come to her room and told her she was leaving,' Ms Blucher told AAP on Saturday.

She said Asha's mother was told she would need to leave with plain-clothes officers waiting for her downstairs and that she needed to go quietly.

'When asked, 'where are you taking me', they declined to tell her, and said it was neither the community, Nauru or a detention centre,' Ms Blucher said.

But at 8am, a doctor came in and told Asha's mum that she was safe, as he would not be 

discharging her unless he was satisfied a safe home was waiting for Asha.

That was the last Ms Blucher heard from the mother.

When she called at 3.15pm, she says she was told by immigration officers that Asha's mum could no longer make or receive calls.

'The Serco officers said they had been informed by border police that she was not allowed any calls - not even from her lawyers,' Ms Blucher told AAP.

'To hold someone incommunicado like that to me says you're about to do something that's not in their interest,' she said.

Refugee advocates have since surrounded the hospital in hope of blocking any officers who attempt to take Asha away.

GetUp Queensland spokeswoman Ellen Roberts said about 200 protesters were outside the hospital, and would maintain a 24-hour presence until they received confirmation about the family's plight.

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Hmmm...sinister moves afoot?

[debra9275]

of course, water boiling over.. and whatever their cooking appliances are, they are probably low down in a tent.. makes sense about the doctors' safety concerns really

[***super_nova***]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

huh??

how does hot water spill itself??

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in case that was a serious question -

place a pot full of water on

the stove, debra.  watch what

happens when it reaches the

boiling point.   

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And when living in tent, and cook on some sort of camping stove, and have toddlers around, accidents are very likely to happen.  These camps are not suitable places to live with small children for years. 

[debra9275]

you put that so much  better than I did nova- exactly what I was thinking

[***super_nova***]

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@djilukjilly wrote:

Isn't the reason why these 200 or so illegal immigrants in Nauru have been told they will not be resettled in Australia and they would either be sent home or resettled in another country therefore reinforcing the Governments stance on refusing all residency to illegal immigrants paying criminals to access Australia.

Isn't it a fact that all these people could go home tomorrow but they are refusing because they paid for Australia and that's what they want.

They will not get what they want because if the government cave in that will open the floodgates once more to thousand's of asylum shoppers.

Nobody said that this situation is  ideal for illegals but they are choosing to stay in Nauru until there's a change of government. That's what they are waiting it out for.

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These people ARE NOT illegal, everybody has the right to ask for asylum, it is not illegal to arrive by boat or plane and apply for asylum.  These refugees have NOT been processed, and they are from number of different countries, so you do not know their circumstances and whether they could or could not go home.  If they were processed and deemed not to be genuine refugees, they would be deported.  So, IF this government is spending millions on keeping for years people who are not genuine refugees, they have a lot to answer to the taxpayers.  But why are you so hysterical about handful of people who came by boats, when people are arriving daily by plane and applying for asylum, and are then processed on mainland?

 

[Anonymous]

but wasn't it nauru that was destroyed

by fire caused by rioters? something like 80%

of the buildings destroyed?

In the six months before the fire, the firm had built 11 accommodation buildings, almost 80 per cent of the total number required under the contract. It has also finished central facilities, including the kitchen, dining hall, recreation centres and administrative buildings.

http://www.canstruct.com.au/canstruct-rebuilds-major-portions-of-nauru/

[Anonymous]

well, super nova, seems like everyone

is getting 'hysterical' about illegal border

crossing immigrants and traffickers. 

Nato has sent a patrol of three warships to intercept migrants trying to reach Greece by sea and send them back to Turkey, as Europe steps up efforts to contain the refugee crisis.

The mission has been agreed and ordered to the Aegean sea in less than 24 hours, an extremely rapid move for the alliance. Nato normally spends months deliberating over decisions and agreeing details.

The German-led patrol will be backed by planes that can monitor the flow of people attempting illegal crossings. Greece and Turkey have agreed that any migrants they intercept will be sent back.

“They will not be taken back to Greece. The aim of the group is to have them taken back to Turkey. That is the crucial difference,” said the British defence secretary, Michael Fallon.

“This is the first time we have seen a group tasked with returning migrants. That has not happened before. So that is quite an important development.”

The UK does not have any ships involved but is looking at how it could contribute, Fallon told journalists after a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels, where the plan was hammered out.

“It could definitely help save lives in the Aegean and it could help break the criminal gangs that are trafficking migrants from Turkey into Europe,” he added.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/nato-launches-naval-patrols-to-return-migrants-to-turke...

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"Peter Dutton can do it for one child, he now must do it for the rest of them," she told reporters in Adelaide. (Sarah Hanson-Young.

Mr Dutton said the number of children in detention on mainland Australia had dropped from 8000 when Labor was in government to around 80.

He said the government's policy had not changed - that refugee families could remain in Australia while their "medical and legal matters" were finalised, but would then be sent back to their country of origin.

"If people then don't want to go back to their country of origin, then they go back to Nauru," he said.

Natasha Blucher, former Nauru detention centre caseworker and family advocate, said Asha's mother was relieved.

"This last week has been incredibly stressful and all she has sought is to be able to live in the community like everyone else," she said.

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[debra9275]

that was a heart warming story on ABC news tonight 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-21/asylum-seekers-leave-nauru-for-life-in-canada/7187416

listening to him speak, he seemed a nice enough young man

they were on Nauru from 2012???  So, quite a long time

[moonflyte]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

huh??

how does hot water spill itself??

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in case that was a serious question -

place a pot full of water on

the stove, debra.  watch what

happens when it reaches the

boiling point.   

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And when living in tent, and cook on some sort of camping stove, and have toddlers around, accidents are very likely to happen.  These camps are not suitable places to live with small children for years. 

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I wonder, have you been to Nauru and visited the facility?