Australia and the UN Pulling as fast one on Refugees entering the United States.

  The United Nations’ refugee agency told Australia that its policy of banishing asylum seekers to remote Pacific island detention centers was illegal.

   The Australian government said Sunday that it had reached a one-time agreement in which the United States would take in refugees who had been banished to a detention center on the tiny impoverished Pacific island nation of Nauru.

  Mr. Turnbull would refused say how many of the refugees, who were granted  status by the United Nations, would be resettled in the United States. “U.S. authorities will conduct their own assessment of refugees and decide which people are resettled in the U.S.,” he said in a written statement. About 410 men, women and children are held on Nauru, and 823 men are held on Manus Island. Some are from Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Malaysia.

He gave little reassurance that the plan would be honored under President-elect Donald J. Trump. “We deal with one administration at a time,” Mr. Turnbull said.