The fact of deportation is irrelevant as a sentencing consideration for drug importation offences, being a matter exclusively for the Executive Government. An evidentiary foundation is required before deportation can be considered as extra-curial punishment — both that deportation will eventuate and that it would constitute additional punishment in the relevant sense. The broader question of whether deportation of an offender with a permanent residency visa can ever affect the sentencing process was expressly left open.
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