An article in Sydney Morning Herald indicates that there is a very high likelihood that the Trump Administration will seek to block the implementation of the agreement.
The article quotes statements from a Texas Congressman, Brian Babin, saying that “I am confident President-elect Trump will do everything in his power to put an immediate stop to this secret Australian-US refugee deal that should simply never have happened in the first place”.
The article also refers to statements from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte warning that the United States should not be accepting asylum seekers from “countries of national security concern”.
