It certainly creates classes of refugee claimants: those who are deemed worthy of a proper, full and fair refugee hearing, and those who are not.
As I explained, those who are not and who are relegated to the PRRA process, are not mainly, or even probably, those who have entered irregularly. Relatively few of those who have entered irregularly, it appears, have in fact claimed refugee status in the United States. What it does do is set up a distinction between those who deserve a proper hearing and those who, apparently, for reasons that are never fully explained or justified, don't warrant a full hearing.
Let me add to that. The pre-removal risk assessment was designed to be a supplement to the refugee determination system. Somebody who went through the system and had been refused, but for whom a long time had passed before they were about to be removed, had the chance to say, “Here is new evidence. Something has changed since I was refused refugee status. Please look at it before you make the final removal.”
The idea is that they had already had one fair and full decision made, and this is a supplement to that. In the present circumstances, the bill will take people who don't have any decision made about them in the United States, Australia, England or anywhere else. They are simply people who have claimed refugee protection, yet for that reason, they are denied a full and fair hearing and confined only to this inferior process.