I would be interested in hearing someone try to explain the functional difference between a detention centre and a gaol, actually.
The government seems to make it continually difficult for people like me, who could just about see the need for detention centres and keeping some record and control of who's coming in and out, to support anything they do in relation to immigration. They don't seem to have a grip on it, and when they do exercise their power, they always seem to deport the wrong people.
Plus I am more than willing to believe that conditions in detention centres are nowhere near the level they should be.
I would be interested in hearing someone try to explain the functional difference between a detention centre and a gaol, actually.
I'm dashed if I can see one, and the worst of it is, as you say, the brunt of the unpleasantness seems to fall on honest, harmless people who, whether or not the authorities are right to believe would not be in danger when they went home (and I'm sure that some people have been deported who shouldn't have been, even under existing rules), do not deserve to be forced to live in abject poverty, be bundled out of their homes at three o'clock in the morning, or incarcerated in poor conditions. And, as you say, the whole system seems to be completely out of control.
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Date: 2008-03-18 04:52 pm (UTC)I would be interested in hearing someone try to explain the functional difference between a detention centre and a gaol, actually.
The government seems to make it continually difficult for people like me, who could just about see the need for detention centres and keeping some record and control of who's coming in and out, to support anything they do in relation to immigration. They don't seem to have a grip on it, and when they do exercise their power, they always seem to deport the wrong people.
Plus I am more than willing to believe that conditions in detention centres are nowhere near the level they should be.
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Date: 2008-03-19 09:37 am (UTC)I'm dashed if I can see one, and the worst of it is, as you say, the brunt of the unpleasantness seems to fall on honest, harmless people who, whether or not the authorities are right to believe would not be in danger when they went home (and I'm sure that some people have been deported who shouldn't have been, even under existing rules), do not deserve to be forced to live in abject poverty, be bundled out of their homes at three o'clock in the morning, or incarcerated in poor conditions. And, as you say, the whole system seems to be completely out of control.