Actually, it’s worse than you think. The deal is to take refugees from the ME.
But. Consider the source. Something’s no being reported. Further down the thread, one of our colleagues suggests “extreme vetting.”
The truth is probably closer to this: Honor the dumb deal with our ally, then use extreme vetting to determine those to be sent back to their home countries.
Bottom line: BBC is incapable of telling the whole truth. This is merely anti-Trump spin. Possibly fake news.