More than 300 foreign students found breaching Australian immigration laws, were put into detention centers in Sydney and Melbourne in the past three years, media reports said Thursday.
It said in the last three years, 299 overseas students from 24 countries were put into the detention centre in Sydney or Melbourne, most of whom were deported.
Students from Universities, TAFE and secondary schools were detained and majority of them hailed from India, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the reports said.
Of the detainees, 207 were held for overstaying their visas, 30 for attendance breaches, 14 for failing their courses, seven for not starting their courses, four for withdrawing from their courses, one for a work breach and 36 for other reasons.
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