Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Refugees from Australia's offshore detention centres become the first to be accepted by the US under a resettlement deal
About 50 people from the Papua New Guinea and Nauru centres will be taken to the US, the Australian government confirmed yesterday.
Under a resettlement deal struck with the Obama administration in 2016, the US agreed to take up to 1,250 refugees.
President Donald Trump called the deal "dumb" but said he would honour it.
Under a controversial policy, Australia refuses to take in anyone trying to reach its territories unofficially by boat.
They are intercepted and detained in the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres.
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