The phrase "asylum seekers to return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about policies or situations involving the repatriation of individuals seeking asylum.
Example: "The government announced a controversial plan for asylum seekers to return to their home countries."
Alternatives: "refugees to go back" or "asylum applicants to be repatriated".
The immigration department has consistently gone to extensive lengths to persuade Syrian asylum seekers to return to the country, even as the conflict there worsened.
With no processing, no information and a daily routine of appalling conditions and humiliations, the pressure on asylum seekers to return is enormous.
The Home Office has begun encouraging asylum seekers to return home before officials have considered their cases, the Guardian has learned.
Daniel Webb, the director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, said: "Rather than constantly pestering asylum seekers to return home, Australia should process their protection claims.
It is further evidence of the concerted attempts by Australia's right-wing Coalition government to coerce asylum seekers to return and follows news published by Fairfax newspapers that some are being offered an increased repatriation incentive of $10,000.
Before urging asylum seekers to return, Morrison warns: "If you choose not to go home then you will spend a very, very long time here and so I urge you to think carefully about that decision and make a decision to get on with the rest of your life".
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, said in Amman, Jordan, today that he expected more than half the 800,000 or so Iraqis living abroad as asylum seekers to start returning home by next year, mostly from Western European countries.
Attempts by the British Government to force asylum-seekers to return home and lie about their political allegiance to avoid persecution will be challenged in the Supreme Court tomorrow.
Chia said the government's power to return Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka – from where human rights organisations, the UN, and international media have consistently reported the persecution and abuse of returned asylum seekers – could be open to challenge.
Key's suggestion is likely to fuel community pressure on the Australian government over its plans to return the asylum seekers to Manus and Nauru, where abuses against asylum seekers have been documented.
According to the Dublin rules, however, these nations can return the asylum seekers to Hungary to process their application.
