>So shipping asylum seekers to a country with a semi-dictator or an island somewhere is considered acceptable? I had <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags there... Austral

>So shipping asylum seekers to a country with a semi-dictator or an island somewhere is considered acceptable? I had <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags there... Australia's asylum policy has been the subject of both domestic and international criticism,[0] particularly with its policy of mandatory detention of unlawful arrivals.[1] >I'm curious how all this is different from what Trump has been attempting to do at the US border? Trump LOVES the Australian asylum policy and has been praising it since 2017.[2][3] As the New York Times pointed out in July, "Trump’s immigration approach isn’t new: Europe and Australia went first".[4] In fact, the Trump travel ban[5] is pretty much how the White Australia policy[6] would have looked like if Deakin, the attorney-general of the first federal government, had not watered down the original racial criteria in the Immigration Restriction Bill to the dictation test.[7] The bill was one of the concessions demanded by the Labor party (yes, the same centre-left union-based party that is oh-so-progressive today[8]) in exchange for supporting the minority Barton government.[9] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia#Public_debate_and_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia#Public_deb... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_Austr... [2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/donald-trump-tweets-support-for-australias-immigration-policy/11251800 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/donald-trump-tweets-s... [3] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/trump-somehow-made-australia-s-prime-minister-seem-reasonable-on-refugees.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/trump-somehow-ma... [4] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/world/immigration-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/world/immigration-trump.h... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Restriction_Act_19... [8] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-08/albanese-shorten-labor-australians-first-ad-criticised/8506358 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-08/albanese-shorten-labo... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Government#Immigration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Government#Immigration