If asylum seekers do not provide the necessary documents before October, they are deported. Australia on May 21, declared an ultimatum to more than seven thousand refugees who arrived in the country by boat, reports DW. The government gave them time until October to prove their right to asylum. If they do not, they will be deported and will not be allowed to return. "If people think they can rob an Australian taxpayer (. ), Then I'm sorry, the game is over, "said Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. He noted that the cost of maintaining 50,000 asylum seekers who arrived in the country before 2013, mainly from Afghanistan, other countries of the Middle East and Sri Lanka, is about 1.4 billion US dollars a year. At the moment about 7,500 people have not submitted documents that would confirm their right to asylum. Refugee lawyers reacted harshly to the minister's statement, noting that their clients have been waiting for years for complex and lengthy procedures to confirm their right to asylum.

The actions of the Australian Government have long been a matter of serious concern to human rights organizations, in particular through the practice of expelling asylum seekers to camps in remote islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The United Nations criticizes Australia for the conditions of illegal immigrants Previously, Australia and the United States reached an agreement on the conditions of detention of migrants in refugee centers in Nauru and in Papua New Guinea. Recall that in October 2016 in Australia promulgated a bill on a lifetime ban on the entry of migrants illegally arriving by boat.

Original article: Australia has issued an ultimatum to thousands of refugees.