- Citizenship Minister Alan Tudge agrees African gangsters should be deported
- He’s backing hardline call made by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last week
- It comes as an Essential poll had 70% of respondents saying gang crime rising
A Turnbull Government minister has backed Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s call for African gang criminals to be deported from Australia.
Citzenship and Multicultural Affairs Minister Alan Tudge said he agreed with Mr Dutton’s claim that people in the Victorian capital were too afraid to go out for dinner at night.
‘I certainly know there are great many people who are scared about these African gangs,’ Mr Tudge, who hails from Melbourne, told Sky News on Tuesday.
Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Minister Alan Tudge agrees with deporting African crims
The Turnbull Government minister’s call to deport African convicted of violent crime follows a crime spree in Melbourne (police confrontation with youths at Tarneit mall pictured)
‘I have many, many people who say to me that they are concerned about going out at night.’
Like Melbourne-based Liberal backbencher Jason Wood, Mr Tudge said he agreed with the idea of deporting African nationals who had been convicted of a violent crime, following a spate of incidents in Melbourne’s west involving South Sudanese youth.
It’s a suggestion which Mr Dutton, who also holds the Home Affairs portfolio, publicly backed last week.
Mr Tudge’s call comes as an Essential poll of 1,000 people showed 70 per cent of respondents believed youth gang crime had increased in recent years.
Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton backs deporting violent African criminals
Almost 50 per cent thought youth gang crime has increased a lot, with nearly three-quarters of Liberal and National party voters perceiving a rise.
In early January, Daily Mail Australia witnessed a flare up between three African teens and 20 police officers, who were spat on, at the Tarneit Central shopping mall.
In late December, Menace to Society gang members trashed the Ecoville Community Park, in the same suburb, by destroying furniture, windows and walls and leaving bongs.
African ‘Menace to Society’ gangs trashed the Ecoville Community Park at Tarneit last year
Only days before Christmas, ‘MTS’ graffiti was also scrawled on an AirBnB party house at Werribee.
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.
On Boxing Day, a police officer was kicked in the face when he tried to arrest a 16-year boy at the Highpoint Shopping Centre at Maribyrnong.
In June, a man was struck in the head with a tomahawk when a gang of 15 men burst into a barber shop at nearby Footscray and started brawling.