News organizations checked the story and found footage of the trip showing the then-first lady and her daughter, then 16, walking calmly from a helicopter and spending several minutes chatting to a group on the tarmac including an 8-year-old girl.

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On Sunday, as a plane sat on the tarmac at Christmas Island waiting to transport the first group of asylum seekers to Malaysia, a High Court judge issued a temporary injunction halting the planned departure.

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