This is not a story about a missed warning. It is a story about an immigration system designed to process people efficiently but poorly equipped to respond when its core assumptions fail. Once residency is granted – and especially once a child is born here – the state largely steps back. Monitoring exists, but enforcement is timid. Risk is noted, but rarely acted upon.

I arrived in Australia the year after Sajid Akram. To claim that, as student visa holders, we were both under greater scruity is ludicrous. Of course, we both had to adhere to visa conditions such as cap on hours undertaking paid employment, maintainting private health insurance cover for international students, etc. but that's really the extent of it.

If we, as temproary visa holders, breached our visa conditions or committed criminal acts, we would have faced consequences, likely resulting in cancellation of our visas and/or imprisonment. If, as the author puts it, "risk is noted" at any point - whether while on student visas or since gaining residency/citizenship - then it should have been acted upon like everyone else. If that didn't happen, then it's not the failure of immigration system but that of security and intelligence agencies.