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Peter Dutton plans to cut new migrant numbers by 100,000 people each year.

Dutton to cut migrant numbers by 100,000 people each year

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton last year walked away from a commitment to cut new migrant numbers by 100,000 people each year. He says that target is now back.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Donald Trump in March ordered the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members in US to a prison in El Salvador.

Court clears way for Trump to use 18th century law for deportations

But in a bitterly divided decision that overturned a lower court’s block on sending migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the Supreme Court imposed some limits.

  • Mark Sherman
A man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is led by force by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca, El Salvador in an undated photo.

White House says it accidentally sent a man to a notorious jail – and now can’t bring him back

A judge has rejected as “eye-popping” the US government’s excuse for not returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had a permit to work in the US.

Bijay Sapkota, a former international student is an advocate for international students coming to Australia.

Coalition vows $5000 visa fee for international students at sandstone universities

Peter Dutton’s plan to increase international student visa fees would cement Australia’s application costs as the most expensive in the world.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Nicole Precel
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and frontbencher Jason Wood on the campaign trail in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Opposition migrant services spokesman declares family interests in migration firm

The Coalition’s shadow minister for migrant services has declared his family’s financial interests in a migration agency that helps people stay in Australia and overturn their visa refusals.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Masi Ayiik

Freed immigration detainee allegedly breached visa conditions 26 times before police shooting

Masi Ayiik’s earlier criminal history and persistent alleged visa breaches were revealed during a hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to decide if the 33-year-old should be released on bail. 

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
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Departures of migrant visa holders are expected to accelerate in coming years, according to leading demographers.

Migration tipped to plummet as post-COVID visas set to expire

A key election issue is high immigration levels, but new research says these will plunge. That’s in addition to falling fertility and shorter lifespans.

  • Shane Wright
Australia’s 47th parliament recapped.

Albanese started his prime ministership on a high. Then in one month, things started to unravel

A record-breaking election and one month that changed it all: we recap the highs and lows of the 47th parliament.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
In this image taken from security footage, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’: Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz, Kathy Mccormack and Michael Casey
Are international travellers still welcome in Trump’s America? You have to wonder.

Has Trump’s America become a hostile place for tourists?

I’m starting to wonder if foreign tourists are still welcome, after several cases of international visitors being detained in questionable circumstances.

  • Chris Bryant

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