 ASYLUM seeker Roqia Bakhtiyari and her six children should leave Australia, the Federal Government said today, after the family was moved from Adelaide to immigration housing in South Australia's north.
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The Bakhtiyaris were given no time to pack belongings when immigration officers removed them early today from the suburban Adelaide house where they were living to Port Augusta.
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Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone would not say whether the move was a step towards deportation, instead saying the family had been asked to voluntarily leave the country. The Federal Opposition said today's operation was hasty but did not oppose the family's removal from its existing accommodation. And a prominent refugee advocate said it was likely the Bakhtiyaris would be forcibly deported from Australia, and the family should choose to leave voluntarily. Mrs Bakhtiyari's husband Ali, remains at the Baxter detention centre on Port Augusta's outskirts, where more than 20 Iranians have been on a hunger strike for about two weeks.
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The family says it is from Afghanistan, but the Government maintains it is from Pakistan and can safely return. All family members have been refused refugee status. Senator Vanstone said the living arrangements of the family had become "untenable" but refused to elaborate.
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