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A group of 27 refugees from Nauru has flown to Port Moresby en route to the United States after being accepted in the Australia-US refugee swap deal negotiated with the Obama administration.
A total of 52 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island have been approved for resettlement in the US, with hundreds of others waiting to hear the results of their assessments. Refugee Action Coalition spokesperson Ian Rintoul told Guardian Australia the vast majority of Australia’s offshore detainees had no idea of their ultimate fate, saying the US has provided “no transparency, no timelines, no numbers, no certainty, except the fact that there will be hundreds left behind”.
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper
