Australia pays US$459 for each day a person is kept in detention,compared with $224 in the US and just $134 in Canada and AustriaImmigration detention in Australia is more than twice as expensive as in comparable countries in Europe and North America, original research has found.
Australia pays US$459 each person a day to keep asylum seekers and other migrants in immigration detention, and according to a report,There Are Alternatives, launched by the International Detention Coalition in Geneva.
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Source: theguardian.com