Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project co-founder Sister Brigid Arthur said the effects of the migration amendments haven’t been seen, yet, but detainees were scared.
“It scares everybody that people could be deported. They can be sent to any other country,” she said. “It could be used in really awful ways, very cruel ways, and it’s against international law.”
Sister Arthur said it was sheer cruelty to have people locked up indefinitely, not knowing if they would ever be let out.