What we’ve witnessed is a complete failure of federal authorities, New South Wales Police, and government leadership—failure to enforce existing laws and failure to remove people who should never have been here in the first place. If you can freely return to your country of birth or your family’s homeland, you are not a refugee. Refugee status was never meant to be permanent convenience—it was meant to be protection when return is impossible. The only people who truly cannot be sent “back” ar...