Thousands of Australians rallied across Australia on Saturday condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s order temporarily barring refugees and nationals from seven countries and demanding an end to Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers.
The protests were made despite a ruling by U.S. federal judge, James Robart on Friday putting a nationwide block on Trump’s executive order.
U.S. ties with Australia became strained on Thursday after details about an acrimonious phone call between Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull emerged and Trump said a deal between the two nations on refugee resettlement was “dumb.”
About 1,000 people gathered in Sydney to protest against Trump’s executive order on immigration and to call on Australia to close its offshore processing centres on the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
Similar protests were held in Canberra, Newcastle and Hobart, while hundreds attended an anti-Trump rally in Melbourne on Friday.
Under the “dumb deal”, the United States would take up to 1,250 asylum seekers held on Nauru and Manus. In return, Australia would take refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Trump has begrudgingly said he planned to stand by the deal, but a source told Reuters on Friday U.S. immigration officials have postponed interviews with asylum seekers on Nauru.
In Sydney, protesters carried placards that said “Refugee torture, Australia’s shame” and “No walls, no camps, no bans”.
“Australia should not be trying to palm off people the government considers problems to the U.S.A. We have the solution here,” protester Beverley Fine, 62, told Reuters.
Trump’s executive order last week suspended the U.S. refugee program for 120 days and stopped visits by travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days.
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What’s the matter with your own countries immigration policies? It’s only 2000 people that you’ve detained. Maybe Australia should reconsider taking in it’s own refugee’s that it has already detained. Quit putting your own challenges off on to other area’s of the global community. Australia is protesting it’s own hypocrisy. Look at yourselves before you criticize other areas of the world. It’s not your business, It’s just like Australia in this matter. What about me? lol.
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