Seekers: Countries and Asylum

seekers: We have been in negotiation with third countries for a long period of time and we are going to land a deal, Dutton told reporters, referring to countries that are neither the asylum seekers homelands nor the country where they are currently kept, according to Brandon Sun. The Australian newspaper reported last week that the United States and Canada could be among the countries that will accept Australia asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to identify countries with which Australia is negotiating to accept almost 1,300 asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and Asia who are kept at Australia expense in camps at Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Few refugees have accepted offers to resettle in Papua New Guinea and Cambodia because most hope that Australia will eventually take them in. The government also introduced to Parliament legislation that would ban such refugees from ever visiting Australia as a tourist, to do business or as an Australian spouse. Australia refuses to resettle any refugee who has arrived by boat since the date the tough policy was announced, July 19, 2013. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.