Typically, they travel to Indonesia and then take a boat from there. Why do they choose Australia? At the time they made that decision, because of stupidity by the Labor government of 2007 until 2013 to relax our border controls, they thought they'd get in.
Why would obama be importing Christians from an island off Australia when his admin has been hostile to admitting Mideast Christians ? And turned away Cubans with a sudden policy change ?
We know Australia agreed to take an even larger number of refugees off American hands. We don't know if the Obama administration asked for any other concessions from Australia. It's possible they did.
Australia has also paid large amounts to some countries in the past to get them to take some of these people. I doubt the US was so amenable to money as other countries, but certainly there could be other parts of that deal.
“Australia has also paid large amounts to some countries in the past to get them to take some of these people. I doubt the US was so amenable to money as other countries, but certainly there could be other parts of that deal. “
That, if true, makes your government a bigger bunch of “$hita$$es” that I first thought! My feelings for Australia are changing with every word you write.