Protesters celebrate the cancellation of mass visa checks in the Australian city of Melbourne.
The Australian Border Force abandoned the controversial operation to randomly stop and check people after hundred showed up at this snap demonstration.
“I find the idea of people going around on the street checking people’s papers frankly Orwellian,” said one unnamed protester.
“We fought a war against this sort of stuff in 1945,” said another.
The hashtag “#BorderFarce”:
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