Australia to take Central American refugees as Malcolm Turnbull pledges to do more at Obama summit

By Mark Kenny
Updated September 21 2016 - 5:20pm, first published 10:07am
A Guatemalan asylum seeker waits on railroad tracks to climb on a cargo train bound for Mexico and the US.  Photo: Jan Sochor
A Guatemalan asylum seeker waits on railroad tracks to climb on a cargo train bound for Mexico and the US. Photo: Jan Sochor
Asylum seekers from El Salvador stand in line at a bus station after they were released from a family detention centre in San Antonio, Texas.  Photo: Eric Gray
Asylum seekers from El Salvador stand in line at a bus station after they were released from a family detention centre in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: Eric Gray
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at UN headquarters in New York. Photo: Seth Wenig
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at UN headquarters in New York. Photo: Seth Wenig

New York: Australia's humanitarian refugee intake will be set permanently at almost 19,000 per year and will now include a component of Central Americans under a series of pledges offered by Malcolm Turnbull in New York overnight.

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