Australia’s militarised border protection policy borrows its methods from the war on terror – not least by moving questionable activities offshore and external the easy reach of courtsThe rebadging of the Australian customs and border protection service as the Australian border force illustrates a phenomenon that’s been obvious for some time – the entwining of refugee policy with the war on terror.[br]nowadays,the institution tasked with responding to desperate people fleeing persecution has been thoroughly militarised. Its personnel are uniformed; its key leaders comes from the army and navy, and treat the most basic information about refugees and their conditions as a state secrets.
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Source: theguardian.com