More of Australia’s rejected migrants headed to
your American city, by Ann Corcoran 6/17/18
More refugees depart Nauru for
US
It
has been quiet for awhile—months I believe—since we’ve heard of another
shipment of Australia’s rejected asylum seekers to America in that dumb deal
Obama made and Trump is continuing.
Unlike
feckless European leaders, Australia’s government at the time, rightly and
successfully, blocked the arrival of migrant boats about five years ago and
apprehended those trying to break in to the country. They were packed off
to offshore island detention centers and efforts were made to get them to
return to where they came from.
Most
didn’t, and Obama
rode to the rescue and said, sure, send these ‘refugees’ to America.
(Readers,
this is a completely unorthodox and possibly illegal use of the Refugee
Admissions Program.)
None
had arrived yet when Donald Trump first set foot in the White House, so he
could have (should have!) stopped the airlift before it began. He didn’t
and they are coming to a town near you—mostly Muslims, mostly men, from
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burmese Rohingya.
The Refugee Action Coalition says 21 refugees have left Nauru for the
United States, only two days after an asylum seeker died on the island nation
from a suspected suicide.
The
RAC’s Ian Rintoul says the departure on Sunday’s of the 21 detainees is
“bittersweet” as the Nauru community mourns the death of 26-year-old Farhad who
was found dead in his family’s tent on Friday.
Trump can’t win, instead of being
grateful that the US is taking some of the fake refugees, Rintoul is now
blaming the Trump Admin for suicides because all nationalities are not being
welcomed to America! “The Nauru community is still in shock because of Farhad’s
death,” Mr Rintoul said.
“Everyone is wondering who is next. With so many nationalities being
denied entry to the US, many people are left thinking that there is only one
way off Nauru now“
Sunday’s
departure reportedly included individuals, as well as two families, from
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mr Rintoul said no other flights
from Nauru this year have included refugees from Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan or
Syria. “The unofficial ban on nationalities under the Trump administration’s
travel ban continues,” he said. For my complete archive on the Australia
deal, go here.
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