Refugee resettled in US after 9 yrs in Australia

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Remember Djokovic and his stay at the immigration detention hotel?

Mehdi, who became the public face of refugees and asylum seekers detained at Melbourne’s Park Hotel, is being resettled in the US.

Iranian refugee Mehdi Ali released after nine years in Australian immigration detention

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"I am free and leaving Australia to start my life in the United States of America," he wrote.

Refugee resettled in US after 9 yrs in Aus

 

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Gotta love the Trumpster.

The transcript shows Mr Trump repeatedly blasting Mr Turnbull during their 24-minute call over the refugee swap deal negotiated under the Obama administration.

The President described his conversation with Mr Turnbull as the "most unpleasant call" he had taken from world leaders that day. He had already spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

When Malcolm Turnbull boasted that, under Australia's hardline approach to asylum-seekers, not even a "Nobel Prize-winning genius" would be let in if they came by boat, US President Donald Trump told the Australian Prime Minister: "That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am," a leaked transcript has revealed.

The Washington Post has obtained what it says are White House transcripts of the President's first phone calls with the leaders of Australia and Mexico.