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But the number of asylum seekers and refugees who have been refused entry into Australia on religious grounds in recent years is unprecedented. According to the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP), 459 refugees were declined entry after religious grounds were found. The latest figure, from earlier this week, is a massive rise of 860; there was also a rise in the number who had been refused entry on religious grounds.
“We are very proud that more than 900 Syrian refugees have now arrived in Australia as a result of a decision made by the UNHCR in August 2015,” Abbott said on Monday. “The first of these refugees arrived at Australian soil back in June. More than 600 people have also made the journey in the past three months alone.”
Abbott told reporters he had personally spoken to the asylum seekers, saying they had shown no sign of p카지노 사이트ersecution and thanked them for their contribution.
He also repeated the government’s call to increase the number of asylum seekers allowed into Australia to ensure “we get a proper handle on this crisis and the response we are going to receive”.
While Labor’s immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has expressed support for increased numbers of refugees and the resettlement of people in crisis, there is scepticism about whether a major increase could be implemented without significant costs to the budget.
DIBP chief executive, Mark Vardy said a “new immigration regime needs to be devised, the first piece of this new regime being proper resettlement and the other two pieces needing to be funded”, adding that “the new regime is also an immigration and a refugee regime” and should be supported by a range of policies.
“There is evidence to show that we can’t increase the number of new arrivals without a cost to the taxpayer, and we have heard from those who have been refugees and made the journey to Australia,” he said. “The people coming here are people who have lived in danger and ar우리카지노e likely to live in fear.”
Abbott told the press conference that the government was trying to boost Australia’s resettling of refugees after the US announced the closure of its border detention centres this summer because of “increased security risks”.
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