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Republican senator Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma.

‘MAGA warrior’, ex-MMA fighter: This is Trump’s pick to run homeland security

Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin has been a staunch defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

  • Madeleine Ngo

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will depart at the end of the month.

Trump sacks Kristi Noem, the face of his immigration crackdown

The US president announced the home security secretary – the first person to be dumped from his cabinet in his second term – would be replaced at the end of the month.

  • Michael Koziol
Nationals leader David Littleproud with new Liberal leadership team Angus Taylor and Jane Hume on Tuesday.

Taylor, Littleproud say migration must be cut to free up housing

The opposition is discussing changes that would make it harder for people to gain permanent residence and citizenship by proving they were law-abiding and contributing to the economy.

  • Paul Sakkal
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A night on the tiles

Do we have to spell it out for you?

Illustration Matt Davidson

Australia, don’t demonise immigrants. Just thank them

The contribution of immigration to this country is not just positive, it is formative. Migrants are who we are.

  • Aruna Sathanapally
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and party leader Pauline Hanson.

Hanson wants referendum to avoid hate speech laws

The anti-immigrant populist leader has used online posts recently to falsely claim Labor’s post-Bondi hate crimes laws were being used by “political elites” to jail her.

  • Paul Sakkal
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A bushfire map from NBC in 2013 suggested the entire country was going up in smoke.

What do migration debates and bushfires have in common? They both scare off foreign students

Government messaging must be consistent and disciplined because would-be students – and their governments – are reading.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Aisiya, a nine-year-old Australian girl interned in al-Roj camp, Syria.

‘I saw houses for the first time’: Australia’s Syrian children tell us about their lives

After years in a wind-blown camp in north-eastern Syria, the girls say they just want to come back to this country.

  • Michael Bachelard and Mohammed Hassan
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor.

Migrants already sign on to Australian values, so what exactly is Angus Taylor proposing?

The new Liberal Party leader wants to test how committed immigrants are to Australian values. But policing the values of freedom and tolerance can be precarious.

  • Jacqueline Maley
An Australian child hoping to escape al-Roj camp in Syria on Monday, February 21.

How PM’s tough line on IS brides has left 34 women and children in no man’s land

Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese’s harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to come back to Australia from Syria.

  • Michael Bachelard