Immigration Detention Is a Death Sentence For Refugees
By Cian Galea
Cramped Detention Centres With Inadequate Healthcare Facilities Are A COVID19 Disaster In Waiting
On 19 March 2020, the story of an immigration detention centre guard testing positive for coronavirus was drowned out by reports of 2700 passengers being allowed to disembark from the Ruby Princess in Sydney. It is in keeping with the callous cruelty and incompetence of the Department of Immigration that their failure to ‘stop’ the one boat that posed any threat to Australia stifled a realisation of the threat that COVID-19 poses to asylum seekers in detention.
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