A federal Liberal MP who used to be a police officer has declared violent African youths don’t want to become Australians citizens anyway.
Jason Wood, whose electorate of La Trobe in Melbourne’s south-east has been blighted by Sudanese Apex gangs, is speaking out after a spate of violent crime across his city.
The backbencher, who has previously called for African gang members to be deported on their 16th birthday, says these teenage thugs weren’t even interested in becoming Australian citizens.
In June, a man was struck in the head with a tomahawk during a barber shop brawl in Footscray
‘If a person between the ages of 16 and 18 year who’s on the visa, who commits a serious violent attack … where that person is seriously injured, as far as I’m concerned they’ve given up their right to the journey to become an Australian citizen,’ he told A Current Affair.
Mr Wood, who chaired a parliamentary inquiry into migration, said all foreign-born criminals over 18 should be automatically deported.
‘Anyone over the age of 18 years who gets involved in serious assaults, car jackings, ramming of police vehicles, again they should be deported,’ he said.
The federal MP, who has recently met officials from the FBI and the London’s Metropolitan Police, said the Australian Federal Police needed to start an FBI-style taskforce to tackle gang crime.
Federal Liberal MP Jason Wood says African thugs aren’t interested in becoming citizens
Menace to Society gangsters smashed the Ecoville Community Park at Tarneit in Melbourne
Under his proposed model, the AFP would form a taskforce with the Victorian police, that is similar to the FBI partnership with the LAPD.
‘Having a coordinated Federal Police with the Victorian police taskforce in the south-east and he western suburbs, the hot spots,’ he said.
‘They do this in America with the FBI and the LAPD where both have very specific skills and resources.
‘When they team up together, they can make a huge difference.’
He has joined Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is blaming Victoria’s Labor government for the spate of violence, a week after Menace to Society gang members trashed the Ecoville Community Park at Tarneit, in Melbourne’s west.
‘The blame is squarely with the state Labor government’s soft bail laws and sentencing,’ he told the Nine Network program.
At Tarneit, furniture, windows, and even walls were destroyed while rubbish was thrown everywhere, including bongs for smoking marijuana.
African thugs associated with Menace to Society also trashed an AirBnB house at Werribee
Youths of South Sudanese appearance also smashed windows at this house in Werribee
Graffiti also covered every every surface, with the letters ‘MTS’ scrawled on walls in an apparent reference to the ethnic African youth gang calling itself Menace to Society.
Only days before Christmas, ‘MTS’ graffiti was also scrawled on an AirBnB party house at Werribee, in Melbourne’s west.
Rocks were also pelted at police forcing them to retreat from the house, when more than 100 youths of primarily South Sudanese appearance turned on them.
The house was trashed, with walls kicked and punched in, mattresses thrown on top of furniture and pepper spray splattered across bedroom curtains.
In June, a man was struck in the head with a tomahawk when a gang of men burst into a Melbourne barber shop and started brawling.
Up to 15 men, many who are believed to be of African descent, entered the shop in inner-city Footscray and began fighting.