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Yassmin Abdel-Magied -

Aussie author, mechanical engineer, former ABC presenter and current activist, Yassmin Abdel-Magied was stopped after landing in the U.S., things got worse from there. 

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Visa cancelled - Abdel-Magied had her phone taken, her visa cancelled and was put on a plane from Minneapolis, U.S. to Australia all within three hours on April 12, 2018.

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Anti-hate rally -

She was due to speak at a rally against hate towards Muslim women in New York, organised by PEN International. 

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Wrong visa? -

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Abdel-Magied had the wrong visa, but she'd traveled to America using that one before.

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Sudanese-born - Abdel-Magied immigrated from Sudan to Australia in 1992. Sudan is one of the seven Muslim majority countries that Donald Trump put a temporary visa ban on.

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Belinda Lopez - PhD student at Macquarie University, Belinda Lopez was going to Indonesia for her honeymoon.

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Honeymoon - Lopez had lived in Indonesia before and was planning on visiting friends in Bali and Jakarta before heading to Papua for her honeymoon.

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Former journalist - Lopez was a journalist for the Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe and the ABC while she lived in Indonesia, something the government isn't too fond of.

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Papau - The Indonesian government has a draconian media ban in Papua.

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Blacklisted from the country - Upon arrival in Bali on August 3, 2018, Lopez was detained, blacklisted and deported from Indonesia after authorities asked about her journalistic past.

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James Ricketson - Aussie filmmaker James Ricketson was working in Cambodia when things didn't go to plan.

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Espionage - Ricketson was sentenced to six years for "espionage and collecting harmful information that could affect national defence" in Phnom Penh.

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Filming an opposition rally - Ricketson had been caught filming an opposition rally in June 2017.

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"Ludicrous charade" - Human Rights Watch called the arrest a "ludicrous charade".

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Royal pardon - Ricketson was given a royal pardon by the Cambodian king and was deported back to Australia on September 22, 2018, three weeks after his sentencing.

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Isaak el Matari - A 19-year-old from Sydney, Isaak el Matari, travelled to Lebanon in an alleged 2017 mission to join ISIS.

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Internal Security Forces - Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested Isaak el Matari shortly after he arrived in the country and allegedly attempted to contact ISIS.

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Syria - The plan, Lebanon's Internal Security Forces say, was to travel to Syria and take part in a suicide bomb attack.

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Confession - The ABC obtained Isaak el Matari's confession where he accused the head of a Sydney charity of radicalising him.

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Deportation - The same ABC report said Isaak el Matari would be deported to Australia during the summer of 2018.

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Kiwis deporting Aussies - New Zealand has deported eight Australians over the past three years.

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Reasons for deportation - Aussies convicted of crimes or of falsifying records were deported.

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Kiwi law - Non-citizens can be deported from New Zealand if they're sentenced to three months in prison within the first two years of living there.

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Resident of five years - Five-year residents of New Zealand can only be deported if they're sentenced to two years or more behind bars.

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1023 Kiwis - Australia has deported 1023 Kiwis in the same three-year time frame.

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Convict history - Australia was once the main destination for deportations from the British Empire.

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Descendants - Many Australians descend from the British Empire's deportees.

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Hardened criminals - As the story goes, the British Empire's toughest criminals were sent to Australia as punishment.

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Child prisoners - But some of them were as young as 12-years-old and had committed small crimes such as stealing a loaf of bread. 

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