A nationalist activist who had his visa cancelled for taking part in a peaceful police-approved protest against the influence of the Jewish lobby has been raided and put in an immigration detention centre.
Matthew Gruter’s family home was raided by Australian Border Force officers at 4am on Tuesday, just hours after he was notified of Immigration Minister Tony Burke’s decision to cancel his work visa and deport him to South Africa over the November 8 National Socialist Network protest outside NSW Parliament.
The raid means Mr Gruter, a civil engineer who has committed no crime, will likely be unable to appeal the visa cancellation, and his wife and one-month-old baby have been given just 35 days to leave Australia.
“Last night at 10pm I received cancellation of my VISA via email. I attempted to apply for a BVE Visa (This visa lets you stay lawfully in Australia while you make arrangements to leave, finalise your immigration matter or wait for an immigration decision – it is intended for people here illegally, and is granted to all manner of criminals – but was denied to me in the system based on “character grounds”),” Mr Gruter said.
“The system intended to make an example of me. This morning at 4:30am, 10 thugs with guns from ABF kicked in my door while my wife was feeding our 1month old, separated me from them, handcuffed me and dragged me away to Villawood detention centre under lock and key where they have informed me I will remain until I am deported from the country.
“We will pursue every legal avenue but Tony Burke’s personal decision to arrest and deport me as soon as possible will likely not be impeded.”
Mr Gruter told Noticer News he was currently inside a private temporary facility, but was about to be moved into “general population” with hardened criminals and murders, and had been repeatedly warned by the guards to hide his valuables or other detainees will steal them.
On Monday Mr Gruter said he intended to fight Mr Burke’s ruling, and a GiveSendGo has been started to support him and his family.
Mr Gruter was identified after a doxxing campaign conducted by far-left extremists working with The Sydney Morning Herald in the weeks following the protest, which had been approved by NSW Police, was non-violent, and resulted in no arrests or charges.
New footage shows about 70 members of the National Socialist Network protesting outside NSW parliament in Sydney today against the Jewish lobby’s influence on Australian politics. pic.twitter.com/FoF4DoFMgW
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) November 8, 2025
Immigration Minister Tony Burke , whose government has allowed hundreds of foreign criminals out of immigration detention over the past two years, said on Monday Mr Gruter’s work visa had been revoked, and claimed the nationalist activist “specialised in hatred”, telling a press conference “he can leave”.
Jack Eltis, the NSW leader of political organisation White Australia, made a statement condemning the raid on Tuesday morning.
“This is a disgusting act from the Australian government, as Matthew was always intending to comply with the orders, as challenging them was attempted last night, but was unavailable to him due to the decision being made personally by the Minister,” he said.
“This is how fast the Australian government acts to deport an upstanding, honourable Nationalist, compared to criminals and rapists. Our government is ruled by traitors and vermin.”
White Australia leader Thomas Sewell, who was only reunited with his own young family last week after released on bail in Victoria, said the state was going to new extremes to persecute nationalist activists, and vowed to deport every single member of the Labor and Liberal parties.
“I have met Matthew on a dozen occasions and know him quite personally. He is a highly intelligent, dedicated and hard working White Man who has always followed the law and stood up for what he knows is right,” Mr Sewell wrote on Telegram.
“The Jewish regime and its political puppets continue to escalate the stakes. They weren’t satisfied with terrorising us with job losses and bank accounts being shut down.
“When we treat our opponents the way they have treated us, I will have zero tolerance for those who whine that what we are doing is extreme. This is the minimum that we are going to do to these evil traitors.”
United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet also criticised the decision to cancel Mr Gruter’s visa, writing on X: “If you are cheering this on just know that eventually the same power and attitude will be turned against you for your views. You may not like what he has to say but in a free country you should defend his right to say it.”
Mr Burke’s decision came just days after the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia restored the visa of Mohammad Mohammadi, 28, who sexually assaulted a teenage girl on a Melbourne bus in 2018 and only had his visa cancelled in August this year.
The Albanese Labor government has also allowed about 350 immigrants to remain in Australia, despite convictions for serious criminal offences, as a result of a November 2023 High Court decision that ruled a Rohingya refugee who raped a 10-year-old boy could not be kept in indefinite detention.
They include a violent Sudanese thug who was allowed to stay because he self-identifies as Aboriginal, a New Zealander who raped his 14-year-old stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth, a Lebanese immigrant who raped a girl, 13, he picked up in his van, and many more.
Dozens have gone on to commit more crimes, including an African man who is back behind bars charged with the brutal bashing murder of a photographer in Melbourne, a Sudanese national who allegedly murdered a man in Brisbane, and a Sudanese gang member who went on to commit more violent crimes.
Another, a Pakistani rapist who cannot be named due to a court order, was recaptured after cutting off his ankle bracelet in Melbourne in March.
In July a grieving widow spoke out after learning that an Indian driver who was jailed for five years for killing her husband had still not been deported due to repeated appeals.
Federal deportation laws require the cancellation of visas of non-citizen criminals who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison, but Victorian magistrates have been given training on how to impose lesser sentences so as to avoid triggering deportation.
Header image: Left, Mr Gruter. Right, the NSN’s Jewish lobby protest (supplied).
