There must be an appeal on the merits of a negative decision. There must be effective judicial protection for international and Constitutional rights. Most proposals here do not guarantee the claims made for them. Immigration officials can already freely decide whom they detain, whom they deport and who gets to stay. Officials have power to target groups who attract public hostility - for example the arbitrary detention of all adults except those on the first boatload of Summer 1999 Chinese boat arrivals.
Officials have enough obstacles to put before targeted individual refugees.
More of the same can only worsen the existing problems of unfairness and unequal treatment before the law. In an ICCR case, the husband of a women torture victim, struggling to look after children alone in Toronto, was stopped in the UK and designated inadmissible. ICCR has already noted unfairness in detention. This proposal allows for greater unfairness and discrimination in detention. ICCR continues to argue that there is no need for any person to be detained unless that person poses a public danger or will not appear for future proceedings.