‘Get rid of them’: One Nation senator claims party will ‘remigrate’ illegal visa holders in resurfaced interview

The Guardian is reporting that a One Nation senator has claimed the party plans to deport two hundred thousand people from Australia. In recent podcast interviews, Malcolm Roberts said this would include one hundred thousand temporary residents and one hundred thousand international students—significantly higher than the party's publicly stated policy. Roberts also used the term 'remigration,' a concept associated with far-right ideology, to describe these plans, and suggested the party might pursue even larger deportations in the future.

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