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Behrouz Boochani

A pink sign reading "SOS EVACUATE MANUS" is held up by a protester.

They lived in limbo in Australian offshore camps for years. Now they call the US home.

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The United States and Australia struck a deal back in 2016. The US agreed to accept about 1,200 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centers. In return, Australia would resettle refugees from Central America.

Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney against the treatment of asylum-seekers at Australia-run detention centers

Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia’s shuttered detention center on Manus

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Some 600 asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea have refused to leave after Australian and Papua New Guinean officials formally shut down the camp and cut off power at the camp on October 31st.

Critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for 600 asylum-seekers in an offshore Australian detention camp

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