Asylum seeker advocates say the government is abandoning multicultural communities

Key Points

• Labor's package of migration legislation will pass the Senate, with the Coalition agreeing to pass the three bills.
• Advocates are opposing the changes to the Migration Act that would give the immigration minister powers to impose blanket visa bans on countries, pay third countries to deport non-citizens, and ban items like phones from detention centres.
• The measure could be used on a wide group of people. Home Affairs officials told an inquiry that as many as 80,000 people on bridging visas, in immigration detention, or in community detention are susceptible to removal.