Coalition boasts it’s ‘running the immigration system’ after deal to pass all three of Labor’s migration bills

The bills enable government to pay third countries to receive non-citizens and prosecute those who refuse to cooperate with deportation

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The Coalition has struck a deal to pass all three of the Albanese government's controversial migration bills, in return for minor safeguards on new powers to ban travellers from whole countries and tougher scrutiny of protection visa applications.

On Wednesday the shadow home affairs and immigration ministers, James Paterson and Dan Tehan, announced the deal with Tehan boasting that the Coalition are now basically running the immigration system for the government because they have failed ... to do it themselves".

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