Pence in Australia: Sure! We will be taking over
1,000 illegal aliens now held in Australian detention, by Ann Corcoran, 4/23/17
Donald Trump called it a “dumb
deal,” but your American town may soon see some of the 1,250 illegal aliens,
who attempted to get to Australia by boat and have been housed in detention
centers, flown in and given apartments and homes where you live. They
won’t be living next door to Vice President Pence for sure!
Here is what AP is
reporting at the Japan Times (emphasis is mine) about a deal the Obama State
Department left for Trump:
SYDNEY – Vice President Mike Pence
and Australia’s prime minister brushed off any lingering hostility over a
contentious refugee deal and joined forces on Saturday to urge China to take a
greater role in pressuring North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program.
Pence and Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull repeatedly praised the decades-long American-Australian alliance
following a meeting in Sydney, with the vice president thanking Turnbull for
calling on Beijing to play a more active part in the international effort to
de-escalate Pyongyang’s nuclear threat.
The two leaders appeared at pains to
present a united front following an unusual period of tension between the
longtime allies that was sparked by a spat between Turnbull and President
Donald Trump over a refugee resettlement deal struck by the Obama
administration.
Pence said Saturday that the U.S. would honor the agreement even if it
didn’t agree with it. Under the deal, the U.S. would take up to 1,250 refugees
that Australia houses in detention camps on the Pacific island nations of Nauru
and Papua New Guinea. Trump’s anger over the agreement led to a tense phone
call with Turnbull in January and an angry tweet in which the president called
the deal “dumb.”
“President Trump has made
it clear that we’ll honor the agreement — that doesn’t mean we admire the
agreement,” Pence said during a joint news conference with Turnbull. So some small American towns and
cities are going to get illegal aliens (mostly Muslim men) who failed to be
approved for asylum in Australia! Disgusting!
Here is a portion of a letter from the chairmen of both the House and Senate
Judiciary Committees sent to the Obama Administration in November identifying
which countries the illegal aliens are from (the “stateless” are most likely
Rohingya from Bangladesh or Burma).
All of our posts on the Australian
“dumb deal” are
here. And, by the way, beginning in 2012,
I testified at US Dept. of State hearings that there were ten reasons a moratorium
on refugee admissions should be put in
place. One thing I said must be done is to stop using the refugee program to
move people around the world just to address some other foreign policy
objective.
Only people who are truly refugees,
in need of humanitarian assistance, should be considered for
resettlement. This Australia deal is exactly what I had in mind when I
presented my testimony. This deal is only to help the Turnbull government out of a sticky
situation.
Here is my #7: Congress needs to specifically disallow the use of the
refugee program for other purposes of the US Government, especially using certain refugee populations to address unrelated
foreign policy objectives—Uzbeks, Kosovars, Meshketians and Bhutanese
(Nepalese) people come to mind.
And, Chairmen Grassley and Goodlatte
are not off the hook either, they could pressure this White House (they were
all too happy to pressure the Obama White House) on the subject!
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