The Last Kids Held On Nauru Have Left The Island
No refugee children remain on Nauru, with the final four kids held by Australia leaving the Pacific island on Wednesday after months of sustained pressure on the government to remove them.
The children and their families were flown to the US for resettlement, under a deal struck between former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and then US president Barack Obama. They had been detained on the island for more than five years.Jana Favero, director of advocacy and campaigns with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, told BuzzFeed News the group was"very relieved" that the last children and their families had left Nauru.
Prime minister Scott Morrison and immigration minister David Coleman had announced earlier in February that there were only four children remaining, and that they had all been approved for departure to the US with their families. In the Feb. 3 media release, Morrison and Coleman triumphantly proclaimed they were responsible for getting the kids off Nauru, saying that every asylum-seeker child had either been removed from Nauru or had their claim processed and had a"clear path off the island", pointing the finger at the previous Labor government for putting them in detention in the first place.
A number of children were only removed after legal challenges were initiated or won by their lawyers, with the Federal Court of Australia ordering the government to transfer a number of them to Australia for medical treatment. Some children were suicidal; others entered a
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