Prime Minister Scott Morrison has categorically ruled out ministerial intervention to stop the deportation of a Tamil family to Sri Lanka. The family is currently being housed on Christmas Island, as lawyers launch a last-ditch legal effort to allow them to stay in Australia.
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton are at odds over the fate of a Tamil family urgently fighting the Federal Government's attempt to deport them to Sri Lanka.
Mr Morrison, a former immigration minister, argued the family could apply to return to Australia as migrants after they returned to Sri Lanka.
"They didn't come to the country in the appropriate way, they have not been found to have an asylum claim," he said.
Former deputy secretary of the Immigration Department, Abul Rizvi, says the refugee status of the family is totally irrelevant to Ministerial discretion.
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