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Dominic Giannini, Andrew Brown and Kat Wong

Serious offenders face return to detention in laws push

Clare O'Neil is pursuing new laws to lock up offenders recently released from immigration detention. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Immigration detainees will soon be subject to similar detention regimes as high-risk terror offenders.

The federal government will introduce amendments this week to laws brought in to deal with the fallout from a High Court decision that ruled indefinite detention was illegal, resulting in the release of more than 140 detainees.

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