Nat Barr is visibly distressed and disgusted after making a shocking discovery on live TV

Nat Barr is shocked after discovering that murderers, rapists and child molesters released from immigration detention can sue the government for millions following a Supreme Court ruling.

The court’s ruling that indefinite immigration detention was unlawful ignored a legal precedent that had existed for two decades and was believed to directly impact 93 asylum seekers.

Many of them had been convicted of serious criminal offenses and had failed a good character test, or were feared to pose a threat to national security, but could not be deported for various reasons.

Seven News political editor Mark Riley told the Sunrise host that even the most perverse asylum seekers who have been released have the right to sue taxpayers for unlawful detention after the Supreme Court ruled their detention was unconstitutional.

Three of those released are murderers, one of whom killed a pregnant woman in Malaysia, and another previously jailed for raping a 10-year-old boy in Sydney.

“The government cannot take these people into custody again, at least until the Supreme Court announces the full reasons for that rather surprising decision last week,” he said.

“What are the consequences,” Barr asked.

“There is a legal issue here about what the Supreme Court actually found, and the implications for hundreds of people in custody,” Mr Riley explained. ‘Whether they too can now apply for release on the basis of this decision.

“There are refugee advocates and lawyers crawling over this – and we’ll see the implications of that very soon.

“The people who are now released have the opportunity to sue the government and remember, the government has no money, the taxpayers have money, so they can sue taxpayers for millions of dollars for illegal incarceration.”

‘Real? For the time they’re in it?’ replied a clearly shocked Barr.

“Under Australian law, they now have the right to sue taxpayers for millions of dollars in compensation,” Riley responded.

‘Murderers, rapists, child molesters, the rest are on equal footing. That is the law,” he explained.

Barr responded saying, “Wow. Including the pedophile who raped the 10 year old boy, the murderer, the rapist. This is terrible.’

The shock development comes as Home Secretary Clare O’Neil introduces a series of tough new visa conditions for released prisoners, including ankle tracking devices and curfews.

“If I had any legal power to do this, I would keep all those people in custody,” Ms. O’Neil said Thursday. “Some of these people have committed deplorable, heinous crimes.”

“So for the people who have been released from detention, we didn’t want to release these people from detention, but we have a simple message for them,” she said.

‘We impose the strictest possible conditions on you. If you don’t follow them, you’ll end up back in jail.”

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles reiterated that the Commonwealth Government was against the release and that the Supreme Court ruled against it.

But opposition leader Peter Dutton accused the minister of not being prepared for the decision.

“If there was another option available – and I honestly believe there is – they could have stopped these people from taking to the streets,” he told Sydney radio 2GB.

Mr Giles said the government had continued to look at “all regulatory and legislative options” but was hamstrung in its response because the Supreme Court’s reasons for the decision had not yet been published.

The government has sought advance advice on options depending on the different outcomes of the court ruling, he added.

Nine of the 83 asylum seekers released into the community are being housed in a taxpayer-funded motel in Western Sydney.

They will support themselves with at least $550 a fortnight from the government’s Status Resolution Support Service, as well as being provided with free Medicare.

Daily Mail Australia approached several residents of the motel in Sydney’s west who were seen roaming freely on the premises on Wednesday and were met with a barrage of abuse.

There is no suggestion that everyone in the photo is a criminal or asylum seeker, just that they all went in and out of the motel on Wednesday.

A heavily tattooed man, wearing a shirt and rolling a cigarette, did not say whether he had been released from detention but made clear he did not want to be interviewed.

“Get out of here,” the man shouted. ‘What the hell are you doing?

“Go the fuck away. I’m calling the police. We are all innocent people here. Why are you trying to talk to us? What are you doing?’

Two police officers had previously spent more than half an hour in the motel, which can only be entered with a pass or after speaking to reception via an intercom.

When asked if she could comment on the Villawood inmates, a woman behind the desk said, “No, you can’t, thank you.”

A man who spent much of the day outside on his cell phone confirmed he was a detainee but twice refused to discuss his situation.

“I’m from Villawood,” he said. ‘I talk to family. Then please.”

Another young man walking around with his cell phone said, “I don’t want to talk to you.