Two-year-old girl and mother released after years in Australian immigration detention

A Vietnamese asylum seeker and her two-year-old daughter have been released from a Melbourne immigration detention centre.

Isabella has lived at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre in Broadmeadows since her birth in March 2018. “We are so happy to see my husband and for us to all be together as a family,” she told SBS News as Mr Lee drove them away from the detention centre. Why has a two-year-old girl lived her entire life in Australian immigration detention?“When we got the news, although we are lawyers, there were many tears and hugs. We are invested in the lives of this family and many others,” she told SBS News.

Congratulations and welcome

It's actually disgusting that a child who's comitted no crime.... serves more time behind bars than cuck Cardinal Pell! This is what a liberal/nat gov gets you!

Should never have been in detention.

I often wonder - long term prisoners regularly become institutionalised and find it hard to live in the world once released. Do long-term detainees suffer a similar problem? Anyone know?

Why only a bridging visa Why not permanent residency

Dutton cannot hold that office

👏 lockdown in vic is hard with all the luxuries that surround us. I can only imagine how hard detention must be! Detention must end.

Now HomeToBilo

whoozqueen The best news I’ve heard in a long while. So happy this beautiful family is together and finally free. Shame on the Australian Government for imprisoning innocent asylum seekers. NotInMyName FreeTheRefugees 8yearstoolong. HomeToBilo 900days

Wonderful news

So glad they are finally out, but an absolute tragedy that this happens in the first place

ewster Congratulations

Hope they enjoy being on the outside that is very very good news.Welcpme home.

pauldutton1968 About time. You’re free Isabella.

Excellent news

I hate Murdoch Murdocracy

Great get rebekahhlt 👍🏽

So happy for them. Freedom

Wow this is such heartening news. Good luck to you now.

Which safe countries did she bypass in order to reach our shores and welfare dollars?

“She added that the granting of a bridging visa to Ms Tran means 'Huyen and Isabella can legally stay in Australia for the term of their visas”. So when do their visa’s run out

About time too. I’m sure it wasn’t done just to distract from other problems at all

Great achievement: a dirty boaty gets her visa? What is the glory on that? that taxpayers have to foot the bill for a false asylum seeker. There are no political persecution in Vietnam, pack the family in a plane and send them back. Legal immigration or else deportation auspol

Heartwarming!

Some great news finally! They deserved so much better!

Fantastic news. But what a waste the last two years have been.

msmegwatson Wonderful news.

We sure are a sick country with an even sicker government. Thanks Mr Murdoch you have done yourself proud spreading your message of evil through out the land. All this suffering for people seeking refuge from tyrants only to find worse tyrants here. 🤬

Now for the Nadesalingam (Biloela) family! To mark the sad occasion of 900 days detainment I wrote this song to get people more invested. Please share if you like it 👍 This is great news and hopefully opens the doors for more releases!

Finally some good news. Now for the HometoBilo family.

And yet this government have consistently told us they have no kids in detention?

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