What you are not being told about the Australian Detention Camps

The obscenity of Australia’s detention camp in Naru is surfacing again. Refugee children driven to suicide because of sexual abuse meted out by guards is about as grim as it gets, but the true horror of what is happening in Australia has infected NZ as well.

Why is Australia throwing so many of its own residents and refugees  into these detention camps? Because private corporations convinced Australian Politicians to build huge detention camps based on a flawed belief that a tsunami of refugees were about to flood Australia. Now Australia has this private prison infrastructure, they need to fill them because the contracts demand payments regardless if the prisons are full or not, the same deal NZ has with Serco…

Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit

The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying in recruits from as far away as London, and busing them from trailers to work 12-hour shifts as guards in a remote camp where immigrants seeking asylum are indefinitely detained.

It was just a small part of a pattern on three continents where a handful of multinational security companies have been turning crackdowns on immigration into a growing global industry.

Especially in Britain, the United States and Australia, governments of different stripes have increasingly looked to such companies to expand detention and show voters they are enforcing tougher immigration laws.

Some of the companies are huge — one is among the largest private employers in the world — and they say they are meeting demand faster and less expensively than the public sector could.

But the ballooning of privatized detention has been accompanied by scathing inspection reports, lawsuits and the documentation of widespread abuse and neglect, sometimes lethal. Human rights groups say detention has neither worked as a deterrent nor speeded deportation, as governments contend, and some worry about the creation of a “detention-industrial complex” with a momentum of its own.

…because the refugee numbers were not as high as forecast, Australia has turned to arresting residents who aren’t citizens and renditioning them to these detention camps as well. NZ had 75 of our citizens caught up in this fiasco.

This abuse is occurring because large private corporations demand to be paid and those paying don’t care because they are too invested in the cost.

NZ won’t criticise it because we have the same private prison company operating our prison.

This is hate on an Industrial scale.