Title: Australian immigration detention facilities - Wikipedia
Headings: Australian immigration detention facilities
Australian immigration detention facilities
Contents
Background
Facilities
Immigration Detention Centres (IDCs)
Immigration Residential Housing Centres (IRHC)
Immigration Transit Accommodation Centres (ITAC)
Alternative Places of Detention (APOD)
Pacific Solution facilities
Services to immigration centres
Controversy
Refugee "Swap" with the US
Suicide and self-harm attempts increase on Manus
See also
References
External links

Content: It is obvious that the prolonged periods of detention, characterised by frustration and insecurity, are doing further damage to individuals who have fled grave human rights abuses. The detention policy has failed as a deterrent and succeeded only as punishment. How much longer will children and their families be punished for seeking safety from persecution? Former Prime Minister John Howard and successive immigration ministers maintained that their actions were justified in the interests of protecting Australia's borders and ensuring that immigration law was enforced. Refugee "Swap" with the US
In 2016 the Australian government announced an intention to exchange some proven refugees from either Nauru and/or Manus Island for certain displaced people presently in Central America as part of an agreement with the Obama administration of the United States. In early 2017 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that he was confident the agreement would proceed, despite the change of President to Donald Trump. However, latest information appears to cast doubt on the willingness of the US government to honour any such agreement, especially in light of Trump's executive order suspending entry to the US from several countries. On 2 February 2017 Australian news outlets, quoting the Washington Post, reported that a telephone conversation between Trump and Turnbull had been acrimonious in relation to the "swap", and that Trump had terminated the call ahead of time. Trump has expressed admiration over the detention facilities, opining that the US should do the same. On 4 February 2019 the remaining 4 children who had been detained on Nauru were sent to the U.S.
In May 2019, it was revealed that some of the U.S. detainees sent to Australia in the "swap", were Rwandan men, for