Deporting criminals

to their home countries seems to make sense doesn't it?
Downunder deports criminals after they have served their time in prison. Other countries do it too.
It's a "double whammy" for some people...perhaps more than that.
You commit the crime. You do time. At the end of it if you are a full citizen of the country you committed the crime in then you go back into the community. Some people offend again. They end up inside again. Others don't and move on with their lives.
If you were born in another country though it is a different story. You commit the crime. You do time. At the end of it you are deported back to the country you were born in....even if you have been here since you were a baby.
They don't want you there of course. Why would they? You don't want to go there either. Your family is here. Your friends are here too. It might be that you don't even speak the language.
The government says "tough". 
Now I do have concerns that this means that some people are being punished more than others.  At the same time I know that it is a way of removing some highly undesirable people from the community.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is not happy that we do this - although they also do it. She was complaining that we have sent "our people" and "our problems" to them. There were a couple of problems with this. First of all they are not "our people". The government here was (and is) removing people who are not citizens and have never made any effort to become citizens. You can have dual nationality between here and there so there is no reason for people not to become citizens. You can be stripped of acquired citizenship of course but if you have never become a citizen in the first place then you need to realise that you still belong to the other place - even if you came here as a baby. 
And yes, in a way, these criminals are "our problems" but they also brought those problems on themselves. These are people who have convictions for offences like drug dealing, sexual assault, robbery with violence and more. This is the individual's problem.

And then we have another interesting twist to all this. The High Court recently ruled that two criminals who were born overseas could not be deported because, as "indigenous" people, they are not subject to the same laws about immigration. The legal convolutions that led to this ruling will be the subject of much debate. It would make an interesting subject for the Jessup - the international mooting competition for law students.    
I know there are arguments for and against the deportation of criminals but  it is done by almost all the countries in the world - and those who don't deport you are more likely to execute you.
It is safer not to break the law.