There is currently a massively unprecedented refugee crisis happening, with more displaced people across the world than has ever been recorded. Every minute, 20 people are being displaced due to conflict or mistreatment, and many of these refugees do not find a permanent home for decades. Australia is one of the countries that ratified the Refugees Convention in 1954, and refugees flock to find a home in this beautiful country. In the past financial year, 24,162 humanitarian arrivals took place in Australia, of which 133,000 were actually new to the country. This does not include the amount of people that tried to enter the country by boat, as Australia does not allow refuge the those who try to enter their state unofficially. Substantive amounts of criticism have arisen about the detention camps that this State set up, specifically on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and on the …show more content…
Three groups have already departed Papua New Guinea and Nauru, after a long and drawn out assessment in regards to the eligibility and vulnerability of said asylum seekers. One complication is the travel ban, reinstated by POTUS Donald Trump, which excludes several nationalities from entering the United States – especially Iranians and Somalians. In fact, Iranians actually make up the largest group of refugees from the two detention centres. Although this one-time resettlement agreement was made to help the asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru, Australia in exchange agreed to accept refugees from violence-plagued countries in Central America, who are currently being detained in US-run camps in Costa Rica. With the eventual 1,250 refugees supposed to be settled in the United States, some relief should be provided but that number does not encompass all those who lived in those detainment