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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia came under fire from human-rights advocates today over its plan to send child asylum-seekers to Malaysia without their parents under a refugee-swap deal being negotiated with the Malaysian government. The Australian government wants to deter asylum- seekers from traveling to Australia by boat by sending hundreds of new arrivals — including unaccompanied children — to Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur has reached an in-principle agreement to take 800 asylum-seekers off Australian hands in return for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees from among more than 90,000 languishing in Malaysia.
