The UN is now butting in as they warn governments that they must respect the rights of all migrants, in a statement apparently targeting measures including Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants and French expulsions of Roma. The UN should just butt out, as Arizona is enforcing federal laws, and France is taking care of a problem. And this statement comes from the Global Migration Group — combining 12 U.N. agencies, the World Bank and the International Organization for Migration — said it was concerned about the rights of tens of millions of migrants in ‘irregular’ circumstances around the globe.
This includes people whose asylum requests are not considered legitimate, and are illegal immigrants and migrants. ”This is our response to the global trend to confine migration policies solely within the narrow context of security and border control,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told reporters. “This is a reminder that while states are entitled to regulate movement across their borders they must do so in accordance with their obligations under international law including international human rights law.” Upi
Now we have all these other countries demanding we overlook the immigration problem, but you don’t see any of them stepping up, offering to take them, and put them on the welfare rolls….but they expect countries like the US and France to keep taking them in, at taxpayer expense. It’s time for it to stop.
Irregular migrants were particularly vulnerable to abuse. Governments too often treated them purely in terms of national security, often driven by hostile domestic political pressures. So now we have a new term, instead of illegals they are called “irregular immigrants”. And in Mexico November 8-11, there is supposed to be a meeting over the immigration problem. I wonder, why doesn’t Mexico take them back, since so many are their “legal” citizens, not ours.
The statement is also directed among others at European governments and the way they treat Roma. France’s expulsion of Roma migrants over the summer sparked a row at an EU summit this month between France and Germany and led one EU official to recall Nazi persecution of the group.
