No Global Compact for Migration for us
Trump is taking us out of an international pact meant to deal with global migration and refugee issues.
The US has been a part of the non-binding New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly last year.
The declaration called for negotiations on a Global Compact for Migration, aimed at protecting the rights of refugees and migrants and helping them resettle.
It also seeks to fight xenophobia, racism and discrimination towards refugees and migrants.
So, naturally, Trump and his evil assistants would prefer us to weaken or demolish the rights of refugees and migrants, and hinder their efforts to resettle. Obviously they don’t want us to be fighting xenophobia, racism and discrimination towards refugees and migrants, because they love all three.
[L]ate on Saturday, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the declaration’s “approach is simply not compatible with US sovereignty” and that the US will instead define its own migration plan.
But it’s non-binding, so it is compatible with US sovereignty, so she’s just lying.
“No country has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue,” Haley said in a statement.
“But our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone,” she added.
“We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country.”
But the agreement is non-binding.
The UN General Assembly president said he was disappointed with the decision.
“I regret [the] US decision to disengage from [the] process leading to a UN global compact on migration,” Miroslav Lajcak tweeted after the decision was announced.
His spokesperson said in a statement that the “role of the United States in this process is critical as it has historically and generously welcomed people from all across the globe and remains home to the largest number of international migrants in the world”.
Yes but Trump doesn’t like that about here (except for the part about providing cheap labor for rich guys who own golf clubs). He wants us to be more white and less foreign.
Actually, many countries have done more than the USA. Both in absolute numbers and per capita ratios. Maybe the administration is still living off the assumption that he waves of immigration from European discovery until post WW2 count. It doesn’t. All that does is throw current xenophobia, racism and discrimination into sharp relief.
Funny, they didn’t seem to have much of a say when those not slaughtered were herded into reservations by immigrants, and I believe the last ones to be in the White House had to endure racist insults from the son of far more recent immigrants.
Jeez, Rob; great minds, and what-not!
The Paris Climate Accord was non-binding too. Even the whiff of a commitment is enough to trigger their withdrawal. Quite apart from climate change denial and wanting to make America Whiter than White, the main point, I think , is that It lets them tell their base that they’re keeping dirty foreigners from making US policy. The Trumpistas are saving the country from an imaginary threat that they conjured up to scare their know-nothing supporters.