From what I’ve read they appear to be Muslims from Myanmar. the Nauru Islanders finally got fed up with them after one of the “refugees” raped a local girl.
Some of the refugees on Nauru are Muslims. Not all of the refugees on Nauru are Muslims.
I am 99% sure the ones Australia has asked the US to take are not Muslims. I am even more sure that if they were, President Trump would not be saying yes.
We’ll try to send the Muslims somewhere else - but we need to resettled the Christians as well. If we can do that more easily and more quickly, we will.