Tamil Family Wins Court Case

[icyfroth]

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/tamil-family-on-christmas-island-win-federal-court-case/ar-...

[jetho1680]

The asylum-seeker advocates are the ones that have cost the taxpayers millions.

Simply, the family did not meet the status of refugees and on more than one occassion,

the same as the many others didn't and were deported.

[rogevibe]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

the government is afraid that letting them stay would set a precedent. So, they will do whatever it takes to send them back . . . regardless of the cost involved or how much the Biloela community want them to stay.

Heartless is the word that comes to mind.

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I agree is heartless - whether or not they are technically eligible 

do not know why just declare a " pandemic amnesty" Just one innocuous happy looking family not like a million adult age males from war zones hostile to us will be released ! 

And what precedent ? No refugee seekers via boat venturing here now , the in thing is just legal visit using a tourist visa and forget to leave,  and that has been barred for awhile now - an upside to the crisis 

We are ahead of the game by 1000's -

Maybe the now the idle immigration dept should be transferred to customs and assist detecting imported contraband for wasting tax payers money.  

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@rogevibe wrote:

And what precedent ? No refugee seekers via boat venturing here now , the in thing is just legal visit using a tourist visa and forget to leave,  and that has been barred for awhile now - an upside to the crisis 

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what precedent?

The precedent would be:

- that if you are are an asylum seeker who marries another asylum seeker

- and both your claims for asylum are rejected

- but you have a child here

- and the community you live in support your claim for asylum

- and then drag out legal proceedings by appealing and appealing and exhaust all avenues for appeal

- then get a ‘reprieve’ of sorts by having your (born in Australia) child’s case reassessed

- and eventually get your whole family a compassionate outcome for your case

then others might try the same thing claiming a ‘precedent’ has set the rules.

AND BEFORE ANYONE JUMPS ON ME, my own view of this case is that it should not have got this far. A compassionate decision should have been made ages ago . . . saving taxpayers millions and saving this family a lot of angst.

From what I have read I believe they would be ‘at risk’ if returned to Sri Lanka (and I don’t mean at risk over COVID-19).

[icyfroth]

If the youngest daughter now applies for a visa and it's granted, what will be the next step?

Will the parents then send her to to be fostered in Australia and then start a family re-unification process, requiring more court procedures?

Or will they decide to keep their little girl close and decide it's not worth the sacrifice?

The human rights lawyers must be making a motza off these ppl's hopes.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If the youngest daughter now applies for a visa and it's granted, what will be the next step?

Will the parents then send her to to be fostered in Australia and then start a family re-unification process, requiring more court procedures?

Or will they decide to keep their little girl close and decide it's not worth the sacrifice?

The human rights lawyers must be making a motza off these ppl's hopes.

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I know . . . right!

That is why it should have been sorted ages ago.

[lyhargr_0]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If the youngest daughter now applies for a visa and it's granted, what will be the next step?

Will the parents then send her to to be fostered in Australia and then start a family re-unification process, requiring more court procedures?

Or will they decide to keep their little girl close and decide it's not worth the sacrifice?

The human rights lawyers must be making a motza off these ppl's hopes.

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'n who is paying their fees?  the family? somehow I dont think so

[myoclon1cjerk]

Maybe they're not charging fees.

[lionrose.7]

They have no Money because some stupid DHS took this man away from his job and locked him and his family up, he was a tax payer

[lyhargr_0]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

They have no Money because some stupid DHS took this man away from his job and locked him and his family up, he was a tax payer

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Thats  you opinion , it's not mine   ........ They lost countless appeals, the refused to leave Au, so the DHS ( Au gov ) took the appropriate action    ........  Nothing stupid about that at all

[the_great_she_elephant]

And of course they're not real flesh and blood human beings like you and I, are they?  just some of that that 'undifferentiated brown stuff' described by Orwell in his essay, Shooting An Elephant.