This week, a delegation of Danish parliamentarians secured a rare opportunity to visit Australia’s largest offshore detention center, on the tiny island-nation of Nauru, and find out whether a similar approach could work for Europe.
All asylum-seekers in Australia are brought to Nauru while the applications are being processed. Once their claims are approved, they are given the opportunity to either resettle in Cambodia or remain on the island. In 2015, Cambodia agreed to take refugees from Nauru in return for $40 million in aid from Australia.
“Australia has found an interesting model,” said Martin Henriksen, one of six Danish politicians who will visit Nauru and a member of the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party. He suggested on Danish radio that Denmark could maintain offsite refugee camps in Kenya or Greenland.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/24/australia-treats-refugees-horribly-but-denmark-wants-a-peek-at-that-playbook/
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[–] Firevine 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Dump them off on someone else eh? Here I was hoping that it was calling them cunts, and leaving them to the whims of the local fauna.