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It’s beyond understanding why the federal government would separate the family when one of their daughters is so unwell.

It goes against everything we stand for as a country to continue to cause so much grief and suffering to this family.

To be separated from each other during a time of significant stress and anxiety simply compounds the already existing mental health and wellbeing issues they’re suffering in detention.

The prolonged and indefinite detention of this family, and other asylum seekers and refugees, violates their rights to liberty and freedom, as well as their rights to seek asylum without punishment on account of their method of entry into a territory.

This family, like many others, have suffered long enough and it’s time to end that suffering.