Hissy Fits in Australia as US Says No to Iranians and Somalis in Refugee Deal
Hissy fits in Australia as US says no to Iranians and Somalis in refugee deal
Posted by Ann Corcoran on May 9, 2018
I’ve been having computer problems so this is going to be a quickie update on the “dumb” Australia refugee deal that we should never have entered in to with the Australian government.
[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65098)]https://refugeeresettlementwatch.fil...pg?w=378&h=213Trump should have followed his first instincts and told Turnbull a flat out NO!
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In January of 2017, Trump should have said NO! to the outrageous Obama arrangement for us to take off the Australians’ hands 1,250 of their detained refugee wannabes.
So now this is all dragging out with the Lefty press taking shots at the US each step of the way.
Here is the latest at The Guardian:
Australia’s refugee deal ‘a farce’ after US rejects all Iranian and Somali asylum seekers
Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban is influencing Australia’s offshore processing system – with all Iranian and Somali refugees rejected for resettlement in the US.
The third version of Donald Trump’s travel ban bars or limits entry to citizens of five Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen – as well as North Korea. The ban’s constitutionality is currently being considered by the supreme court but is currently in effect.
About 150 refugees held in offshore processing on the island of Nauru have appointments with US officials this week, where they will discover final assessments of whether they have been accepted by America. So far, every Iranian and Somali applicant has been rejected.
But, remember dear readers the fake refugees we are taking in the Australian deal are mostly single men from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma (Rohingya Muslims).
The Australian government has promoted the US resettlement deal as its solution to offshore processing but, for more than a year, it has conceded that the US deal cannot clear the camps.
Thus far, 85 refugees have been resettled from Manus and 162 from Nauru. US officials hope to finalise the resettlement deal by October, when its annual resettlement quota restarts.
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Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition (center) wants the detainees to be resettled in Australia…..
More than 500 refugees are expected to be left on the island of Nauru even if the US fulfils its entire commitment of 1,250 places.
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Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition said the US resettlement had been “revealed to be a farce”.
“Iranian refugees account for around a third of all refugees on Nauru,” he said. “It is just not possible for all Iranians to be rejected on any legitimate basis.
“While Trump says there is no official ban on Iranians and Somalis, it is now very clear that the US administration is imposing an unofficial ban. It is not a coincidence that all Iranians are being rejected.
“Turnbull’s phone call to Trump is coming back to haunt him. Turnbull told Trump that he didn’t have to accept anyone; now Trump is taking him at his word.”
That phone call is haunting all of us!
Continue reading here.
See my archive on the “dumb” Australia deal by clicking here. If anyone is interested in following this topic to its very beginning, you will find the information archived here at RRW.
What you can do!
You have probably done it already, but it can’t hurt to let the President know again that he can still shut this down! He is setting a terrible precedent with this highly unorthodox arrangement for refugee resettlement, plus he isn’t keeping us safe by simply blocking the Iranians and Somalis while taking the Afghans, Pakistanis and Rohingya Muslims!
And, to top it off, just as this article makes clear, the media is going to use this whole dumb deal to further bash Trump!
See how to contact the White House in the upper right hand column of RRW.
