Andrew Giles Does It Again

Another day, another pratfall from Australia’s hopelessly incompetent Immigration Minister.

Andrew Giles, it must be remembered, started his career as a boat-chasing, “refugee”-activist. A leopard and an activist lawyer never change their spots: Giles’ first loyalty is to country-shopping illegal immigrants.

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles boasted to refugee activists that his ill-fated Direction 99 would “reflect our obligations” to foreign born criminals who have resided in Australia for most of their lives.

The right to safety of Australians runs a distant third. Because, close second on Giles’ agenda to shilling for foreign criminals is pandering to Labor’s fellow socialists across the Tasman.

Mr Giles told the Refugee Council of Australia event in November 2022 that he was having discussions with “our friends in New Zealand” over the creation of the policy.

The Australian

In fact, it appears that the considerations of everyone but Australians is Giles’s and Albanese’s overriding priorities.

The Australian can reveal that discussions between Home Affairs officials and diplomats from New Zealand’s High Commission in Canberra escalated after a July 2022 meeting between Mr Albanese and then NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern led to the creation of Direction 99. It is understood NZ officials had regularly been raising concerns with the Department of Home ­Affairs in almost monthly meetings about the high number of ­deportees under the previous ­Coalition government. After the Albanese-Ardern 2022 meeting, New Zealand made more regular requests for meetings and information from Home Affairs immigration ­officials over the progression of Direction 99 including, when the new arrangements would come into effect […]

Mr Giles also said his goal was to reduce the “number of people in immigration detention”, especially those from a refugee background.

Then try booting the bastards back where they came from. Fewer people in immigration detention, fewer rapists, pedos, and murderers loose on the streets, too. Win-win.

Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said the comments had “aged very badly”, ramping up the pressure on Mr Giles to resign over Labor’s latest detainee crisis.

“ Far from the tough talk we’ve seen recently, he admits the Albanese government’s policies are actually designed to get people out of detention and back into the community,” he said.

“It worked, but with horrific consequences for Australians over the last six months.

“Maybe the Prime Minister won’t sack his weak Minister for Immigration because he was actually introducing the soft policies Labor always wanted?”

The Australian

Meanwhile, Giles’s uninterrupted run of idiocy continues unabated.

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has admitted he falsely claimed criminals released from detention were being monitored by drones, as it emerged New Zealand diplomats were repeatedly approaching Home Affairs officials to influence his ill-fated Ministerial Direction 99.

As Anthony Albanese’s close factional ally faces another week of parliament dominated by ­questions over whether he can politically survive, Mr Giles escalated his attempts to blame his department officials for his mistakes and suggested they had told him detainees released last year under the High Court’s NZYQ ruling were being checked by drones.

The Australian

The longer this clown stays in his job, the worse it looks for Albanese.

But then, you could say the same about Albanese himself.