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Dominic Giannini

Mass deportations ruled out under immigration powers

The federal government has defended laws, which allow for deportation of non-citizens. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A wave of mass deportations has been ruled out after federal parliament granted the minister powers to pay third countries to take people in immigration detention.

The laws granting that power were in response to the High Court forcing the release of some 200 immigration detainees after ruling indefinite detention was illegal.

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