End racist immigration raids

End racist immigration raids

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Border Force raids on the workplaces of migrant sex workers have intensified in recent years - now happening almost twice weekly. 

In a recent Data Access Request the Department of Home Affairs acknowledged they conducted 103 raids on sex worker workplaces in the financial year 2025-6.

103 occassions when groups of uniformed, armed officers entered sex worker workplaces during opening hours, with 5 - 15 sex workers on site, terrorising thousands of sex workers. For what? Ten people identified for detention. Ten in all 103 raids.

Asian migrant sex workers report experiencing:

  • harassment due to the prolonged presence of uniformed, armed officers stationed near their workplaces before and after “compliance operations”;

  • having their phones forcibly taken when attempting to photograph documents presented by ABF officers for signature; and

  • being denied access to translation apps, receiving inadequate or incorrect translation, or not being offered translation at all.

We need your help to expose and end this inhumane and unnecessary practice. These militarised raids do not protect workers - they terrorise them. 

It’s time to stop pretending this is about “visa compliance” or "border integrity".

This is about power, racism, and the denial of basic human rights - and it must end.

Border Force raids on the workplaces of migrant sex workers have intensified in recent years - now happening almost twice weekly. 

In a recent Data Access Request the Department of Home Affairs acknowledged they conducted 103 raids on sex worker workplaces in the financial year 2025-6.

103 occassions when groups of uniformed, armed officers entered sex worker workplaces during opening hours, with 5 - 15 sex workers on site, terrorising thousands of sex workers. For what? Ten people identified for detention. Ten in all 103 raids.

Asian migrant sex workers report experiencing:

  • harassment due to the prolonged presence of uniformed, armed officers stationed near their workplaces before and after “compliance operations”;

  • having their phones forcibly taken when attempting to photograph documents presented by ABF officers for signature; and

  • being denied access to translation apps, receiving inadequate or incorrect translation, or not being offered translation at all.

We need your help to expose and end this inhumane and unnecessary practice. These militarised raids do not protect workers - they terrorise them. 

It’s time to stop pretending this is about “visa compliance” or "border integrity".

This is about power, racism, and the denial of basic human rights - and it must end.

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