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# Australia Is Reopening Christmas Island Detention Center in Anticipation of New Asylum Seekers

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## Video: Australia Is Reopening Christmas Island Detention Center in Anticipation of New Asylum Seekers

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_Published 2019-02-13. The Australian government said Wednesday it would reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat._


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## Transcript

This parliament has already tipped it's hand enough to the people smugglers. I won't be doing that, and compromising our operations, and how we now address the consequences of what this parliament is doing to our borders. Secondly, we have approved putting in place the reopening of the Christmas Island. Detention facilities and a series of compounds there both to do with the prospect of arrivals as well as dealing with the prospect of transfers. My job now is to ensure that the [ UNKNOWN ] don't come, my job now is to do everything within my power and the power of government to ensure that what the parliament has done to waken our border Does not result in boats coming to Australia.

It is still the case that our government is running border protection in this country, and that of itself is a great deterrent, because they know our resolve. The people smugglers know my resolve. They know Peter Dutton's resolve. They know we will do everything in our power to stop them at every point, and we remain standing here to ensure that they don't come.

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