Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell in custody as deportation calls mount
Neo-nazi Calls are growing for the deportation of Thomas Sewell, but it is unlikely to abolish strict citizenship laws. Dr Abul is reporting Rizvi.
After attacking an anti -immigration marches and attack on a indigenous protest site in Melbourne petition call National Socialist Network leader Thomas SewellIt was reported that deportation provided more than 100,000 signatures. Peter Van Onselenwrite for Daily mailHe expressed disbelief in the Minister of Interior Tony BurkeThe existing law of the existing law that the neo-nazis did not allow the deportation.
Sewell is currently in custody, facing various charges of his violent actions. They may or may not lead to a Gaol sentence of 12 months or more. We will have to wait and see.
It was reported that Sewell was born in New Zealand and emigrated to Australia at a very early age and spent most of his life in Australia. If he did not remove the Australian citizenship, Character provisions Migration law It can be used to cancel the visa based on Gaol penalty or represent the risk of public security in Australia (based on political beliefs). It can then be negotiated with NZ, but it can be deported to NZ.
Most of the media reports show that he is a dual NZ/Australian citizen. This makes it much more difficult to deport unless he lies the Australian citizenship application. There is no clear evidence that he has done this.
If it is not included in the citizenship application form, the rules regarding the cancellation of its citizenship are very strict. CHAPTER 36D that Citizenship Law It allows a person to apply to the court for a person to stop Australian citizenship.
Action (CHAPTER 36C) The court states that a person can give an order to stop Australian citizenship:
- The person is 14 years old;
- The person is a dual national;
- The person is convicted of one or more serious crimes;
- The court sentenced it to a total of at least three years or more; And
- The behavior of the crime is so serious and important that it shows that one rejects his commitment to Australia.
Serious crimes specified in the law, Penal Code and add:
- Some terrorist crimes, including violations of extended audit orders and temporary audit orders;
- betrayal;
- espionage;
- Foreign intervention;
- Defending mutini;
- Foreign attacks and recruitment crimes; And
- Crimes of some explosives and deadly devices.
While deciding whether a person’s behavior is serious and important enough to show that they refuse their commitment to Australia, the court should consider the following:
- Whether the values, democratic beliefs, rights and freedoms that support the Australian society are rejected;
- the degree, duration or scale of the commitment to the behaviors in which the crime is associated with;
- The aimed scale of the behavior to which the conviction is related;
- The actual impact of the behavior in which the conviction is associated; And
- Whether behavior causes harm to human life and causes the cause or not the loss of human life.
Although Sewell’s actions can meet some of these requirements, they certainly do not meet them all. Sewell’s actions would not meet the fourth and fifth requirements S36C. Any application to the court fails to end Sewell’s citizenship.
Some argued that citizenship law should be changed in order to stop the citizenship of those who expressed their neo-nazi beliefs and defenders. However, Australia exceeds the point where we banned certain political beliefs (such as attempts to ban the Communist Party in the 1950s). This would be a very slippery slope.
Sewell will now be accused by the police for severe actions. This will be evaluated by a court and if he is found guilty, he will serve the sentence given to him. That must be.
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DR ABUL Rizvi An independent Australian columnist And a former deputy secretary of the Ministry of Immigration. You can follow Abul on Twitter @Rizviabul.
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