Eastern refugees detained in Australia who have been approved for resettlement in the United States after President Trump failed to honor a commitment that he would terminate the refugee deal with the Oceania country.
Former President Obama signed the Australian-U.S. refugee deal during his last months in office � promising to take 1,250 Middle Eastern refugees off Australia�s hands.
The refugees � who are mostly adult males � are being held in detention centers on Manus Island and Nauru Island in Australia. Despite Trump�s original statement calling the deal �a dumb deal,� the president has now broken two long-promised campaign pledges: Throwing out deals that don�t benefit Americans and stopping the flow of foreign refugees.
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