Obama’s damn Australia ‘refugee’ swap deal must
be killed!, by Ann Corcoran 1/16/17
I thought this thing was dead until
I happened across this story at the Financial Review by Dougal Robinson from Melbourne, Australia. The
nerve of Aussie’s suggesting that if the US reneged on the deal, this might
strain relations with Australia.
Is Australian Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull blackmailing Donald Trump into taking 1000 of Australia’s detained
FAILED asylum seekers, or is a “research fellow” running his mouth at the
Financial Review? See our previous posts on the insane deal, here (posts
dated 2016 and 2017).
Remember when you read this that we
are talking about illegal aliens who attempted to get to Australia, but that
country refused to admit them to their mainland and they are in detention
elsewhere.
The Australians did not
want these mostly Muslim illegal aliens! They were not granted asylum in
Australia! So why are they our problem?
This has got to stop! There should
be no DEALS involving refugees where our US State Department wants something
from another country, but those getting shafted and suffering the consequences
are local communities that must put up with unwanted aliens moving to their
towns!
Here is what the Financial Review said three days ago. Damn it! These are NOT REFUGEES, they
failed Australia’s asylum process! (Emphasis below is mine, you can tell
I’m outraged when I write in red!)
Australian diplomats in Washington face an unenviable assignment: to
convince the incoming Trump administration that more than 1000 refugees on
Manus Island and Nauru should be resettled in the United States. While the Australian government wants the planned refugee
resettlement to occur, circumstances will force it to consider the importance
of this issue relative to many other topics needing discussion with the new
administration.
The refugee resettlement deal, announced by the Turnbull government and
Obama administration after November’s presidential election, faces growing
opposition among members of Mr Trump’s party.
Three congressional Republicans have already stated their opposition to the
deal. If more Republicans express similarly critical views in coming days and
weeks, it will become increasingly difficult for Mr Trump to carry out an
Obama-era agreement that seems at odds with his comments on refugees and Muslim
immigration. [Note that Obama’s State
Dept. made the deal AFTER the election!—ed]
Author Dougal Robinson calls Rep.
Brian Babin a “hard-right” Congressman and says he (a “junior member of
Congress”) surely does not have Trump’s ear. Babin called the deal “madness”
just last week.
Brian Babin, a hard-right Texas congressman and member of the House Freedom Caucus, said he was
“confident President-elect Trump will do everything in his power to put an immediate
stop” to a refugee deal he described as “madness”. It is improbable that Babin,
a junior member of Congress first elected in 2014, was foreshadowing the
internal thinking of incoming Trump administration officials who are invariably
focused on other priorities.
Of more concern are the other
outspoken opponents of the deal: Senator Chuck Grassley and Representative Bob
Goodlatte, influential Republicans who have spent several decades in Congress….
Australia will in all likelihood be asked to do much more than foot the
bill for vetting and resettling the refugees in the United States, and
accepting US-controlled refugees from Central America into Australia as
currently planned will do little to assuage the new administration.
A new commitment could be needed on one of Trump’s priorities, such as
increased Australian engagement in the fight against ISIS. In these circumstances, the Trump administration
could sell the resettlement as a pre-done agreement and point to an enhanced
Australian alliance commitment. Security concerns could be alleviated by
references to comprehensive vetting by Homeland Security officials and
Australia’s strict standards on border control. [So Australia wouldn’t help fight ISIS unless we take 1,000 mostly
Muslims that Australia doesn’t want!—ed]
Confirming that Trump can
do what he wants with refugee admissions, this sounds like a threat from the
Financial Review (or whoever they are writing this for!):
A final scenario is that this
becomes a totemic issue due to Trump’s focus on immigration and ISIS. If
several more Republicans in Congress, especially the senior and influential
types, speak out against the deal then its fate may be sealed.
As President, Trump can unilaterally
scrap the deal without congressional approval. (Professor Niels Frenzen, an immigration expert
at the University of Southern California school of law, notes that overseas
refugee admissions are “pretty much subject to the unfettered discretion of the
President”.) Such a rejection would be humiliating and problematic for
Australia, a loyal US ally, and dominate evolving discussions of the alliance.
Sounds like blackmail to me! More here.
Once again, Obama is leaving Trump
with a foreign relations problem wholly of Obama’s making!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/obamas-damn-australia-refugee-swap-deal-must-be-killed/
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