Another 10,000 inherited asylum seekers have received protection. In fact, they are in the same position as the Nadesalingam family before they were arrested.
Why the previous government chose this family and not the other 10,000 remains a mystery. Perhaps the government realized that the cost of removing 10,000 unsuccessful asylum seekers would have been overwhelming?
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So will we look more like the United States and Europe with a large number of unsuccessful asylum seekers living in the shadow of society, constantly exploited and mistreated while working illegally to survive?
Or does the Albanian government have the courage to regularize the status of unsuccessful asylum seekers in Australia and prevent the resurgence of the massive labor trafficking scam that took place under the previous government?
Most Australians would be surprised to learn that since 2015, Australia has experienced its largest labor trafficking scam abusing the asylum system.
This scam involved about 100,000 people arranged to arrive by plane, most with tourist visas.
The organizers of the scam targeted vulnerable people, initially from Malaysia and China, with the prospect of well-paid jobs in Australia, who normally worked on farms. Organizers apply for asylum on behalf of workers who often know nothing about the applications.
This gives them the right to work for a few years while applications are processed, during which time organizers often reduce the already meager wages of workers.
It is much easier and cheaper to exploit the asylum system by smuggling people.
We now have almost 30,000 asylum seekers in the main stage of the application and another 37,000 in the crowded Administrative Court of Appeal.
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Most asylum seekers are denied protection, which means that 31,000 more have been rejected at both stages, but remain in the community without any support or employment rights.
For this group, former Agriculture Minister David Littleproud proposed an amnesty. This was because the scam mainly provided cheap labor to the farms.
Littleproud’s amnesty was revoked by former Attorney General Michaelia Cash, who said: “An amnesty would send a dangerous message that it is okay to disregard our strict visa and migration rules, principles that this government has worked on. incredibly hard for a period of time for sure. ”
This is the argument that the Republican Party of the United States has been advocating for decades to prevent any effective action being taken to regularize the status of millions of unsuccessful asylum seekers in that country.
The Albanian government is facing a critical election.
It follows the path followed by the Morrison government and simply ignores tens of thousands of unsuccessful asylum seekers living in the shadows and allows the labor trafficking scam that began in 2015 to resume in as international travel returns to more normal levels?
Or does it establish effective measures both to regularize the status of unsuccessful asylum seekers and to prevent the resumption of labor trafficking scams that abuse the asylum system?
No doubt opposition leader Dutton would argue against regularization and suggest that the Albanian government withdraw all asylum seekers without success.
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But removing tens of thousands of unsuccessful asylum seekers, people who have lived and worked in the Australian community for many years, is an impossible task. Leaving aside the massive cost, it would mean that farmers would lose tens of thousands of people currently working on farms in Australia.
Over the last four or five years, very few asylum seekers have been withdrawn without success, because the Australian border force does not have the resources.
Achieving the dual goal of regularizing more than 100,000 asylum seekers and preventing the resumption of labor trafficking scams is perhaps the ultimate political problem.
Therefore, the paralysis of politics may be the result.