Next bunch of Australian detainees headed to US yesterday, by Ann Corcoran 2/19/18
Australia
did not grant them asylum (refugee status), but we are in what
has to be the dumbest refugee deal ever heard of.
Some of these men
are already walking free in your US town! Manus Island locals don’t want them
there: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41812189
This bunch of 35 (flying yesterday) will
bring the number of mostly single Muslim men from Afghanistan, Pakistan and
Rohingya (Burma), free to walk the streets in Any Town, USA, to nearly 200.
Do we really expect these fighting age young
men to go cheerfully into meatpacking companies to do slaughterhouse
work? But,
take heart! Trump’s travel ban is saving us from Iranians—BFD!
I will repeat, if just one, of what
could ultimately be 1,250 of the newly minted ‘refugees,’ becomes a problem it
will be on Donald Trump because he should have followed his original instincts
this time last year and killed the “dumb” deal!
And, refugee contracting agencies should
be shaking in their boots because just one bad apple will bring more
anti-refugee headlines. Recently we learned that some were going to New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, here. See all of my dumb-deal posts by clicking here.
From The Guardian: Another 35 refugees are leaving Nauru for the
United States on Sunday, the third group to depart Australia’s offshore
immigration centers this week.
Almost all are single Afghan, Pakistani or
Rohingya men,
along with one Sri Lankan family and one Bangladeshi refugee, said Ian Rintoul
of the the Refugee Action Coalition.
The makeup further confirms fears that
Iranians, who make up the largest national group on Nauru, have so far been
excluded from the US intake. Iran was proscribed by Donald Trump’s “travel
ban”.
So far 84 people have flown from Nauru and
another 85 from Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island to the US under the
resettlement deal, with at least one more flight expected
to leave this month. About 2,000 refugees and asylum seekers
remain in Australia’s offshore system.
The controversial “US deal” – decried as
“dumb” but upheld by Trump – was brokered by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and
the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, in September 2016.
There is much more (here)
including a lengthy discussion about how some of the ‘refugees’ were
just walking around Manus Island, minding their own business, when they were
attacked by local police.
And, of course the detainees have
twitter accounts to alert the world of the abuses they supposedly suffer. Trump is scheduled to meet with
Australian Prime Minister Turnbull later this week, see here.
In my opinion, the President should be
inviting Hungarian PM Orban to the White House instead! LOL! They could compare notes on how
much George Soros hates them!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/next-bunch-of-australian-detainees-headed-to-us-yesterday/
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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