Detaining refugees offshore doesn't work

Detaining refugees offshore does not work, British MPs were told yesterday by Australian legal experts as the number of migrants crossing the Channel this year passed 8,000. Madeline Gleeson, an Australian academic and lawyer, told the home affairs committee that Australian detention centres on the islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea had filled up within three months of the policy being introduced. She added that this was expensive, costing about £550 million (997,878,750.00 Australian Dollars) a year for Australia to detain 300 people offshore. Source: The Times