Although its president-elect has strongly denounced refugees and Muslims, Australia will send asylum seekers to the U.S as part of a one-off resettlement deal.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that asylum seekers interned in Australia's regional processing centres would be eligible for the new program, with women, children and families to be prioritised.
The two centres on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea are part of a system set up in 2001 to send anyone who arrived by boat seeking asylum offshore while their refugee claim was assessed. The program was intended to deter further "irregular" arrivals. Read more...
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