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June 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
It takes more that razor wire to stop people from escaping Immigration Detention Centres. Picture: Colin Murty.
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
ELECTRIC fences, razor wire and security guards are proving no barrier to brazen breakouts from Australia’s Immigration detention centres.
Hundreds of visa over-stayers and asylum seekers have scaled fences, disappeared on day release programs or simply vanished after being released into the community on bridging visas.
For the first time, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal 523 people have escaped detention in the past decade. Nearly one third — 153 former detainees — remain on the run from immigration authorities.
The Immigration Department has also revealed that 11 asylum seekers released into the community on bridging visas since November have absconded in breach of reporting requirements.
The figure represents only a fraction of the 4052 people approved for community detention since the program was expanded two years ago.
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Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said the escapees were desperate and often sustained injuries while “doing a runner”.
“They . . . end up with cuts from the barbed wire and injuries from the drops if they have to jump from the fences. People do get electric shocks,” he said. “They are fearful of being deported. The detention centres are hell holes.”
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said that although escapes were rare the private company that runs immigration detention in Australia had been sanctioned with million-dollar fines in the past.
“Escapes from detention, and especially from community detention, are very rare,” a spokesman said. “Nonetheless, we take any escape from detention extremely seriously.”
The figures confirm most escapees were from traditional detention centres. Of the 53 escapes in 2011-12, only 10 were from community detention. Out of 98 escapes in 2010-11, only one person was from community detention and this person had since been located.
Last month, immigration official Kate Pope told a Budget estimates committee 13 clients had absconded from community detention since October 2010.
She said 11 were Vietnamese, two of whom claimed to be adults and were living in Victoria at the time they absconded, nine claimed to be unaccompanied minors.
“Of those, eight absconded from community detention in Victoria and one in Western Australia. Six of those Vietnamese have been relocated.”
Four who had claimed to be minors had since been identified as adults.
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