CATH NEWS REPORT: The Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, says more asylum seekers are having their visa applications rejected at the Curtin Detention Centre, reports the ABC.
"They tell me that previously the determinations were roughly 50 per cent negative and 50 per cent positive," he said.Bishop Saunders says on a recent visit to Curtin he was told by asylum seekers that the risk of self-harm among the detainees grows with every rejection.
"They're now saying that it's more likely that it's somewhere in the region of 75 per cent negative and only 25 per cent positive."
The Immigration Department says it does not break its visa figures down centre by centre but as recently as Wednesday, four men at Curtin were granted visas.http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=25465
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