Australia gets tough on outlaw bike gangs
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AUSTRALIA declared war on motorcycle gangs yesterday, with more than 80 foreigners’ visas torn up in a crackdown on drug-dealing, extortion and gun smuggling.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said 81 biker gang members have had their visas canceled or refused since mid-2014 with 27 already kicked out of the country. The rest are in prison or immigration detention.
The government said they were from countries that included New Zealand, Britain, Bosnia, Albania, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
“Our government is very happy to declare war on outlaw motorcycle gang members,” said Dutton.
He said they were “causing misery and pain to thousands of Australians” and “this government is determined to work to make sure that we can cancel visas of people who are non-citizens who are committing crimes in our country.”
He added: “I have no doubt these visa refusals or cancelations are disrupting the operations of these criminal organizations by removing key individuals from the hierarchies of the gangs along with their associates.”
The government says there are 38 active biker gangs with 4,500 members and thousands more associates, including lawyers and accountants.
They are accused of drug dealing, extortion, money laundering, and the distribution of firearms and explosives.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan called them the “public face of organized crime in Australia.”
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