Labor’s deportation bill could be used to blacklist entire countries’ citizens from obtaining visas to Australia

Greens attack the legislation, now the subject of a Senate inquiry, as a ‘Trump-style travel ban’

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Entire countries could be blacklisted from obtaining visas to Australia under proposed legislation that has been described by migrant groups as “appalling” and by the Greens as a “Trump-style travel ban”.

The legislation – that will now be subject to a six-week Senate inquiry – could affect applicants from Russia, Iran, Iraq and South Sudan, as well as other countries unnamed by the government, that refuse to accept the forcible return of their nationals.

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