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A sign at the entrance of the former Baxter Detention Cent, taken in 2006. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre. This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities.
Immigration detention centres detain people who have overstayed their visa, breached their visa conditions and had their visa cancelled or have been refused entry at Australia's entry ports. [7] This includes irregular maritime arrivals claiming asylum without passports, identity papers or valid entry visas.
Fencing surrounding the detention centre on Christmas Island. The Australian government has a policy and practice of detaining in immigration detention facilities non-citizens not holding a valid visa, suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorised arrival, and those subject to deportation and removal in immigration detention until a decision is made by the immigration authorities ...
The Immigration Detention Centre in 2008. North West Point Immigration Detention Centre, formerly Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility located on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. As at 31 December 2023, no people were detained at the centre. [1]
Australia is the only country in the world with a policy of mandatory detention and offshore processing of asylum seekers who arrive without a valid visa. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Asylum policy is a contentious wedge issue in Australian politics, with the two major political parties in Australia arguing that the issue is a border control problem and one ...
Australia operates a number of immigration detention facilities within the country, as well as several offshore processing centres. All Australian immigration detention facilities are managed by the British services company Serco on behalf of the Australian government. Australia currently has three functioning offshore centres, and ten ...
Hundreds of asylum seekers were reportedly illegally detained at immigration removal centres. Overcrowding at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent saw between 450 and 500 people moved to ...
By 31 March 2019, there were no people held in the detention centre, which had been closed; [8] however as of March 2020, there were 211 refugees and asylum seekers remaining on the island. [9] As of 13 June 2020, a father and son were the last family left on Nauru; there was one single woman and the remaining people were single men. [10]