Two senior Republicans have written to the Obama administration demanding it release details of the US-Australia refugee deal and accusing it of withholding information from Congress. Australia's deal to resettle refugees in the US: what we know so far Read moreThe two men also raised “concern” about their country accepting refugees from countries designated as “state sponsors of terrorism”. “Your departments negotiated an international agreement regarding refugees without consulting or notifying Congress,” they wrote. The Guardian’s publication of the Nauru files revealed widespread trauma and numerous instances of abuse inflicted on children on the island. He denied it was a “people swap” for refugees Australia had agreed to take from the US refugee program in Costa Rica.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 06:45 UTC