Yes. My impression is that the assumption underlying restrictions is that humanitarian applications hold up deportation. So the idea is to place restrictions, because in public debate often humanitarian applications have been treated as if they were some kind of an appeal. But in practice, a humanitarian application doesn't actually block deportation. To stop a deportation based on humanitarian application, you would have to go to the Federal Court and convince the judge that you had a serious case and that the deportation should be stayed.
