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Immigration issues

Immigration issues

By: SBS
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 Make sense of Australia’s migration policies, with news reports and interviews about visas, citizenship, passports and more from the SBS News team.Copyright 2025, Special Broadcasting Services Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • 'We're running out of time': Operation Babylift adoptees return to Vietnam to search for family

    'We're running out of time': Operation Babylift adoptees return to Vietnam to search for family
    Apr 29 2025
    As the world marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, a group of adoptees who were taken out of the country prior to 1975 are racing against time to find the mothers they were separated from. An event spearheaded by Australian-Vietnamese adoptees saw a group of them embark on a bike ride to raise money for elderly Vietnamese residents and spread awareness of their ongoing search for family.
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    7 mins
  • Trauma casts a long shadow for immigration detainees

    Trauma casts a long shadow for immigration detainees
    Mar 29 2025
    A new report has highlighted alarming mental health outcomes for individuals who have spent time in detention. Refugees and migrants already experience lower rates of mental health literacy - but one initiative is looking to raise awareness and provide easy English resources in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The initiative has emerged amid debate about controversial laws that would enable the government to deport any individual without a visa to a third country.
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    8 mins
  • Protests erupt after student arrests in US immigration sweep

    Protests erupt after student arrests in US immigration sweep
    Mar 29 2025
    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says more than 300 foreign student visas may have been revoked under the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown. But the tactics used by the State Department have come under fire after the street arrest of a 30-year-old PhD student it claims was a Hamas supporter. Protesters say there's no evidence of that, describing her arrest and visa cancellation as an attack on free speech.
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    3 mins

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