The Return of “Transportation” Sentencing? Australia Seeks to Ship Illegal Aliens to Small Pacific Island
5th September 2025
It has been 157 years since the last ship taking convicts from the United Kingdom landed in Australia.
Now, in a crushing historical irony, Australia is contracting with the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who the courts have ruled cannot be imprisoned indefinitely. The court rulings show how our allies are facing the same dilemma in dealing with people who enter the country illegally and then oppose efforts to deport them for years in litigation.
They used to transport them to America, but the 1776 kerfuffle squelched that trick.
I hear that Uganda is in the market for prisoners….