As Australia should have learned from Malcolm Fraser’s disastrous failure with the 1976 ‘Lebanese Concession’, virtue-signalling in haste can set the nation up for decades of failure. Labor are repeating the same mistake in their unholy rush to pander to the Muslim voters in critical (to the ALP) Western Sydney seats. The Albanese government have done their best to skirt any and all safeguards by granting tourist visas to thousands of Gazans before even the most cursory security checks.
These almost-certain Hamas supporters will just as certainly never leave, should they be allowed to set foot in the country. Like the grifting former Tamil Tigers and their anchor babies in Biloela, these people will clog the courts with years and decades of vexatious lawfare, abetted all the way by the boat-chasing idiots of the ‘asylum seeker lobby’.
Courts that will already be jam-packed by another cohort of immigration grifters.
Australia’s courts and tribunals are bracing for tens of thousands of international students to appeal against the refusal or cancellation of their visas, amid concerns that foreign visa-holders are gaming the system to circumvent a federal government push to slash net migration.
Anthony Albanese has been warned that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and courts will “drown” in appeals from onshore international students whose visas have been or are in the process of being cancelled or refused by the Department of Home Affairs. With almost 700,000 international students currently in the country, The Australian can reveal the AAT has already been swamped with visa review applications, which can take years to process and are often lead to appeals in federal courts.
New AAT figures show the number of international students who lodged reviews of their student visa refusal or cancellation between September 1 last year and August 31 soared to 15,754, compared with just 2244 the year before. In July and August this year, 4863 appeals against student visa decisions were lodged with the AAT, more than double the number lodged in the entire 2022-23 financial year.
The Australian understands many of the international students lodging applications to review their visa refusals and cancellations are from India and China.
Which all just goes to prove what we all knew anyway: the ‘international student’ industry is too often a scam of immigration-by-stealth.
The surge in reviews has raised concerns that visa holders who have completed their studies and failed to find an employer or partner to sponsor them to remain in the country could claim asylum to avoid deportation, which experts are warning may clog up the migration system for up to a decade.
It all just goes to show that there’s nothing Labor can’t stuff up.
Ahead of the launch of a new appeals body to replace the AAT on October 14, a spokesman for Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke defended the government’s crackdown on international students, which has primarily targeted those enrolling in private colleges and vocational institutions.
Of course, it’s never their fault.
“We make no apology for reversing the rorting and exploitation that the former government allowed to flourish in pockets of the higher education sector,” the spokesman said. “A direct consequence of that is rejecting a higher number of student visas. Unfortunately we are not only battling a broken migration system but also inherited an AAT irreversibly damaged as a result of the actions of the former government, that was beset by delays, mismanagement, and an extraordinarily large backlog of applications.”
A backlog which was a direct result of Labor’s repeated failures on border protection – and an AAT stacked with decades of Labor jobs-for-mates appointments. Not to mention Labor’s notorious ‘Ministerial Direction 107’ that ordered Home Affairs Department officials to deprioritise the processing of student visa applications deemed to be ‘high-risk’, causing rejection rates to increase.
And Labor have had over two years to fix it.
Instead, Labor have flooded Australia with millions of new country-shopping grifters.
The Albanese government is on track to overshoot its net migration target of 395,000 in 2023-24 after Australian Bureau of Statistics figures last week revealed net migration increased by 509,800 people in the year to March [..]
Former immigration department deputy secretary Abul Rizvi said the avalanche of cases was the product of the final stage of a migration “boom”, with record numbers of temporary migrants looking for a pathway to remain in Australia by appealing their visa decision. He said the next step was to lodge a protection application […]
Sources said a majority of students launching appeals were not studying but were using the visas as a means to winning permanent residency.
Well, no shit, Sherlock.
Can we finally just admit that the whole mass immigration Ponzi scheme is a disastrously failed scam?
