Calls grow for neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell’s deportation, but strict citizenship laws make removal unlikely. AFTER HIS PARTICIPATION in the anti-immigration marches and attack on an Indigenous protest site in Melbourne, a petition calling for National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell’s deportation has reportedly secured over 100,000 signatures. That makes his deportation much more difficult unless he lied on his application for Australian citizenship. Section 36D of the Citizenship Act allows the minister to apply to a court for an order to cease a person’s Australian citizenship. Any application to a court for cessation of Sewell’s citizenship would fail.