Posted on 04/22/2017 11:15:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Earlier this month I was asking what, if anything, was going to happen with the Obama era refugee deal which had been struck with Australia. They’ve got thousands of migrants, primarily from Iraq, Syria and other troubled regions, basically stuck in some island camps where they are coming into conflict with the local residents. The United States had said that we would be taking more than a thousand of them off their hands, but the President somewhat famously referred to it as “a dumb deal” he would have to study.
I suppose the study period is over because we got our answer from Vice President Pence when he stopped off in the Land Down Under this week. We still don’t like the deal, but it’s going to go through. Not, however, without the United States getting something in return. (NBC News)
Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia which means 1,250 asylum seekers will be rehomed in America — a deal President Donald Trump had described as “dumb”.
Pence told a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney that the deal would be subject to vetting, and that honoring it “doesn’t mean that we admire the agreement”.
“We will honor this agreement out of respect to this enormously important alliance,” Pence said at Turnbull’s harbor side official residence in Sydney.
There’s obviously been some back room wheeling and dealing going on here because Turnbull was presenting Donald Trump with what amounted to a substantially large demand. After the vetting of immigrants and international travel bans became so much of the focus of the Trump presidency, and having been a constant refrain on the campaign trail, this agreement has precisely the wrong optics for Trump. But he’s also well known as a guy who can cut a deal and that’s what we appear to have here. First off, we may be taking the Islamic refugees off of Turnbull’s hands after they are thoroughly vetted, but Australia will be taking a similar number of refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras from the United States in exchange. (Is that a good trade? I’ll leave that up to the judgement of the reader.)
Dumping some South American refugees on Australia isn’t the only thing Trump’s getting however. Malcolm Turnbull has been in hot water over those refugee camps for some time now. He’s been taking a very firm stance in saying they won’t be allowed into his country, but options for what else to do with them have been limited. If this deal fell through entirely he’d have a serious mess on his hands. Trump has now essentially bailed out Malcolm Turnbull and cemented an important friendship. Having made a number of other world leaders “nervous” to say the least, President Trump probably wants to start lining up a few in his corner and now he has Australia’s leader owing him a favor.
It’s unclear when all of this is going to happen, though. Some vetting of Australia’s refugees has already been going on but there’s obviously a lot of work left to be done. It could be a couple more years before they are all cleared out at this rate.
Do the Australians realize that we are trading MS-13 Gang members for maybe Islamist jihadists?
Maybe we should send them to Gitmo until we get it sorted out....in 20 or 30 years.
Hawaii, then put them all on the No Fly list until they can be deported.
>Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia which means 1,250 asylum seekers will be rehomed in America — a deal President Donald Trump had described as “dumb”.
Asylum seekers in Australia are economic migrants from Indonesia. They’re not Syrians.
However it’s still a dumb deal.
So you’re SURE they’re MS13 but you’re not SURE they’re jihadis.
How’s that :)
Good thinking :)
How about #### the south Americans and the refugees.
Why isn’t that a VERY viable option?
Put them on a plane and fly them to Iraq
Great, we take Islamists that Australia will not take.
Not just dumb, it’s stupid.
At least the Central Americans aren’t Islamists.
Capital idea. Settle them around the Federal Judge who has enjoined the temporary moratorium, as well.
Obama made this deal with the Australians.
Obama was importing his muslim army.
The Australians do not want the muslim army and made the deal with Obama.
Trump should take this muslim army and ship them back where they came from.
I believe these were bad hombres that Australia didn’t want in their country
why are we ‘stuck with hte deal’? What’s gonna happen if we say “After carefully vetting these refugees- we have decided they are too potentially risky to accept”? Will the australian police come and arrest us or something? Will they shoot us dirty looks or something?
Trump should, on behalf of the American people, tell the Australian government that the deal made by the 0bama regime is not in America’s best interest and, therefore, cannot be honored. Apologies for the irresponsible conduct of the 0bama regime. Dump the South American refugees on Australia if they want to take them. Otherwise, send them back to South America. It ain’t that hard to figure out.
There are tons of African and Near Eastern or Asian Youths going to Australia and have been for decades. Of course there are 10’s of millions of true Asians who would like to emigrate to Australia but don’t think there aren’t plenty of Mohhamadian Arabs trying - they are already there.
How many have been resettled in Kauai?
There is a 700-acre compound ready for settlement.
I would be willing to volunteer my services to vet them. I would simply ask them a series of questions about what they believe and , Being mooselimb is in direct conflict with being in America. Don’t see any rapugess passing the vetting - they either admit to being mooselimb and are therefore disqualified, or they will have to commit “isalmic blasphemy” and then the mooselimbs can kill him for us before he could ever get here.
Please resettle the refugees as close to Obama’s new digs in D.C. as possible.
Hahaha…can’t wait to hear the caterwauling when the illegal MS-13 “children” find out they won’t be joining their gang members in America’s fat and stupid cities, but rather will be taken to the wilds of Australia, where the spiders are more deadly than they are. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
When the plane gets here, refuel and send it straightt to Saudi Arabia.
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