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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen inside a high care accommodation room as he tours North West Point Detention Centre on Christmas Island, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Morrison says asylum seekers who are allowed to leave Pacific island migrant camps to get medical treatment in Australia will be sent to a prison-like facility on a remote island. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia to send refugee medical transfers to remote island

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses media at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Morrison says his government will reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat after Parliament passed legislation that would give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk)

Australia to reopen island detention camp after refugee bill

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Australian ruling party defeated in Parliament on refugees

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo shows Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru. Australia announced on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon the sent to the United States, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum-seeker policy as elections loom. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australia says last child refugees to leave Nauru camp

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, refugees are pictured on Nauru. Australia aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru within two months as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years. But cabinet ministers said on Thursday, Nov. 1, the government is maintaining its much-criticized policy of sending all asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boat to immigration camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australia aims to remove asylum seeker children from Nauru

By ROD McGUIRK and NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 4, 2018, photo, from left, Mohammad, 17, Aryana, 2 1/2 months old, his mother and little brother Amirparsa, 11, are pictured on Nauru. &quot;We were innocent,&quot; says Mohammad about himself and other children. &quot;It was not our fault to come out of our countries. It was not our fault to be in Nauru. We need future. We need education. We need to be in a normal place.&quot; (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP)

Unwanted by Australia, refugees on Nauru have few options

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Tensions run high over China and refugees at Pacific meeting

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Fate of Nauru refugees casts shadow over Pacific conference

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

First asylum seeker boat in 4 years reaches Australia

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2018, photo provided by Aziz Abdul, the 25-year-old Sudanese refugee Abdul poses at the East Lorengau Refugee Transit Center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Abdul hopes to be chosen among the 1,250 refugees barred by Australia that President Donald Trump has reluctantly agreed to accept as part of a deal struck between the Australian government and the Obama administration. (Aziz Abdul via AP)

Australia succeeds in stopping migrants but many in limbo

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

First refugees held by Australia in Pacific camps head to US

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton speaks to reporters in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The Australian minister said U.S. officials are &quot;in the final stages&quot; of vetting up to 1,250 refugees rejected by Australia for resettlement in the United States. The refugees are among hundreds of asylum seekers — mostly from Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka — who have been languishing for up to four years in immigration camps on the impoverished Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia: US vetting of Pacific island refugees nearly done

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

** FILE ** Asylum seekers who were rescued from a troubled boat adrift in heavy seas off Java while trying to reach Australia are escorted by police officers upon their arrival at a marine police station in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sunday, July 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)

Rush of asylum-seekers before Australian crackdown

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Associated Press)

Australia prime minister backs deportation of asylum seekers

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press