You might want to note that Turnbull is from the Liberal Party of Australia. He’s stuck because roughly three-quarters of Australia favor the tough-entry program that Australia maintains, and there are several thousand on these island refugee camps which Australia will not accept. No one else in the Pacific will take the refugees back....so it’s a fairly negative position.
The fact that this was worked out as a favor by Obama to Turnbull...makes it a fairly humorous deal with nothing to be gained by the US. I think if you went to actual Australia citizens....they’d say that Trump is right, and Turnbull is wrong. I’ve yet to see any US network go and ask the typical Australian on the street about their opinion.
Good points. IMO Trump should have said no to the deal. That that deal was made with the previous pres and time expired when he left.
But I guess he felt stuck and didn’t want to renege. I don;t blame him for it at all though. this is obama’s fault.