The deal provides that up to one thousand, two hundred and fifty asylum seekers in Australia would be resettled in the US.
These are people Australia controversially refused to accept, but instead detains them at offshore centres on the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
After a phone call with the Australian Prime Minister, MALCOLM TURNBULL; President TRUMP twitted that he would study what he described as a dumb deal.
TRUMP was also quoted in a report by The Washington Post describing his conversation with the Australian leader as the worst by far of his calls with world leaders that day, which he said he had to cut short.
Meanwhile; the Australian Prime Minister has expressed disappointment that details of what he described as very frank and forthright conversation with President TRUMP had been made public.
MALCOLM TURNBULL said he had been assured by TRUM that the deal would go ahead.
