Australia’s embattled immigration department has come out swinging over what it claims are mistruths and falsehoods about its much-criticized treatment of asylum seekers, but in the process has caused a new controversy.
In a statement intended to “set the record straight” about critics’ “emotive and inflammatory claims” about conditions inside Australia’s controversial offshore detention centers, according to some who saw it, Department of Immigration and Border Protection Secretary Michael Pezzullo appeared to question whether Nazi atrocities actually happened.