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What trillions of dollars? The relationship is mutually beneficial.
Both countries were settling refugees the other were not able to settle. Australia will no longer take in asylum seekers by boat, so they needed a solution for these people in limbo and they reached an agreement with the US.
It is not a policy. That was it. No more were planning to be swapped.
That deal doesn't even make sense at all. Why would we give them people who were in US facilities and we take people from islands near them? Why? Why can't Australia take the ones near them even if they come by boat? It makes no sense whatsoever and you aren't even questioning it.
A Saudi can be properly vetted, as could citizens from the other countries you listed. His birth is documented, his background can be verified, his friends and relatives interviewed, his mosque investigated, his government has record of him, and so forth.
None of that can be done in the 7 countries listed.
Yeppers; properly vetting a Saudi using information given to you by SAUDI government is of much more effective vetting than those others. The Saudi government were connected with the money flow to those guys that blew you up but to date they travel freely to the U.S.
This is a sham exercise to pander to a particular demographic of Americans and it's working like a charm to keep you fearful, confused and deflected from fact.
That deal doesn't even make sense at all. Why would we give them people who were in US facilities and we take people from islands near them? Why? Why can't Australia take the ones near them even if they come by boat? It makes no sense whatsoever and you aren't even questioning it.
You know .... if, after the last few days of copious media reports and posts and discussions on this - you STILL don't get it, just move on to your next outrage. It's obviously too complicated to understand for you.
No one from Somalia can be vetted. Sudan....Yemen......Iran...Syria.. et al.
Kuwait also has banned entry from some Muslim countries....Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran.
Those of us with actual brains know why.
You don't vet all immigrants? Student visa applicants, temporary work permit holders, is that what you're admitting? Why bother vetting any refugees then?
Were we only talking about refugees or the Trump ban on all entrants?
If you had an actual brain you would not have seized upon the irrelevant while hosting 13 million who got no vetting whatsoever and who comprise a portion of your major crime stats far higher than any refugee group from anywhere.
Clearly, trump's staff has either deliberately tried to insult Australia, or they are simply incompetent.
IMO, both.
The President thing was ignorance and omitting the name petulant.
(Who doesn't respect whom?! . )
Most comments have been making jokes on this but - from the perspective of the government, yeah - that's offensive.
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The Saudi government were connected with the money flow to those guys that blew you up but to date they travel freely to the U.S. 
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