In a landmark decision on Wednesday, Australia’s high court ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful. This decision overturns an earlier 2004 ruling that held that noncitizens arriving by boat without visas could be locked up indefinitely, so long as the government intended to remove them as soon as “reasonably practicable”–even if there was no way for […]
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