Asylum Seekers: Resettlement Deal and Asylum-Seeker Policy

asylum seekers: Instead, the government pays Nauru and Papua New Guinea to house them in conditions condemned by human-rights groups, according to Metro News. We know who our friends are, and we know it is great to work alongside you in our fight against people smuggling, Waqa told Turnbull ahead of their meeting. The meeting in Sydney between President Baron Waqa and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull follows fresh scrutiny of Australia's asylum-seeker policy sparked by a resettlement deal between Australia and the U.S. Australia refuses to settle any asylum seekers who try to arrive by boat, insisting the tough policy is necessary to dissuade migrants from attempting the dangerous ocean crossing from Indonesia. I think the program is working well. Shortly after, the Obama administration said the U.S. would accept up to 1,250 refugees living on Nauru and Papua New Guinea who have been rejected by Australia for attempting to arrive by boat. But the future of the program remains in doubt, following a spat it prompted between Australia and the U.S. Last year, Australia said it would take in an unspecified number of Hondurans and Salvadorans from a U.S.-led program to resettle refugees currently in a camp in Costa Rica. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.