No ministerial intervention for an embattled immigrant family in Australia
If the latest student-deportation issue and the ensuing abstention of the Immigration Minister from providing any relief to the applicants was not enough then the most recent case from Australia where a desperate immigrant family is denied a favourable ministerial intervention suggest that Trump-effect is indeed beginning to gain a foothold in our part of the world.
States are increasingly hiding behind bureaucratic walls to become less sympathetic about human conditions and miseries in the changed post-Trump world.
In this case across Tasman, two doctors and their children will be deported from Australia this week after the Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke had decided it wasn't "in the public interest" to intervene in their case.
The immigrants in question are a reputed Bangladeshi Doctor couple from a Western Sydney suburb, Doctor Nasrin Haque and Dr Shafiqul Bhuiyan, who have lost their right to remain legitimately in Australia along with their teenage son under Australia's "one out, all out" approval provision for families.
The refusal handed because Dr Haque's another teenage daughter Sumaya had a developmental delay and was deemed to be too burdensome for Australian taxpayers.
This was after both the doctor parents had made an undertaking that their flourishing medical practices do not necessitate them in any manner to be dependent on state and public funds to raise their child in Australia.
Apparently, Assistant Immigration Minister has taken this decision to not intervene on the pretext of “public interest.” Although not much was revealed by the Minister himself or the spokesperson of Department of Immigration and Border Protection sighting rule that “[the Minister] cannot be compelled to exercise his powers and he is not required to explain his decisions in any case.”
"What is or is not in the public interest is entirely a matter for the Minister considering each case on its own merits," Mr Hawke's spokesperson said.
Earlier, about 31,600 people have signed an online petition pleading for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to block the family's deportation.
The local Federal MP Susan Templeman had also written an “urgent” request for Mr Hawke's intervention where she insisted there "is more than enough 'public interest' for Dr Haque and her children to remain in Australia".
"Deporting a whole family who provides significant services to the Hawkesbury community because of their daughter's developmental delay, is not only unjust and unfair but will deprive my community of the contribution that Dr Haque makes," Ms Templeman had written.
In a coincidence, Dr Haque and her family will be deported on Wednesday, February 22, the day when the Indian students previously holed in a Ponsonby church in Auckland are also expected to depart voluntarily as a part of a deal between student’s lawyer and Immigration New Zealand (INZ).
If the latest student-deportation issue and the ensuing abstention of the Immigration Minister from providing any relief to the applicants was not enough then the most recent case from Australia where a desperate immigrant family is denied a favourable ministerial intervention suggest that...
If the latest student-deportation issue and the ensuing abstention of the Immigration Minister from providing any relief to the applicants was not enough then the most recent case from Australia where a desperate immigrant family is denied a favourable ministerial intervention suggest that Trump-effect is indeed beginning to gain a foothold in our part of the world.
States are increasingly hiding behind bureaucratic walls to become less sympathetic about human conditions and miseries in the changed post-Trump world.
In this case across Tasman, two doctors and their children will be deported from Australia this week after the Assistant Immigration Minister Alex Hawke had decided it wasn't "in the public interest" to intervene in their case.
The immigrants in question are a reputed Bangladeshi Doctor couple from a Western Sydney suburb, Doctor Nasrin Haque and Dr Shafiqul Bhuiyan, who have lost their right to remain legitimately in Australia along with their teenage son under Australia's "one out, all out" approval provision for families.
The refusal handed because Dr Haque's another teenage daughter Sumaya had a developmental delay and was deemed to be too burdensome for Australian taxpayers.
This was after both the doctor parents had made an undertaking that their flourishing medical practices do not necessitate them in any manner to be dependent on state and public funds to raise their child in Australia.
Apparently, Assistant Immigration Minister has taken this decision to not intervene on the pretext of “public interest.” Although not much was revealed by the Minister himself or the spokesperson of Department of Immigration and Border Protection sighting rule that “[the Minister] cannot be compelled to exercise his powers and he is not required to explain his decisions in any case.”
"What is or is not in the public interest is entirely a matter for the Minister considering each case on its own merits," Mr Hawke's spokesperson said.
Earlier, about 31,600 people have signed an online petition pleading for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to block the family's deportation.
The local Federal MP Susan Templeman had also written an “urgent” request for Mr Hawke's intervention where she insisted there "is more than enough 'public interest' for Dr Haque and her children to remain in Australia".
"Deporting a whole family who provides significant services to the Hawkesbury community because of their daughter's developmental delay, is not only unjust and unfair but will deprive my community of the contribution that Dr Haque makes," Ms Templeman had written.
In a coincidence, Dr Haque and her family will be deported on Wednesday, February 22, the day when the Indian students previously holed in a Ponsonby church in Auckland are also expected to depart voluntarily as a part of a deal between student’s lawyer and Immigration New Zealand (INZ).
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