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Migrant surge 'normal', U.S. should not reinforce border: UN official
Al-Reuters ^ | November 2, 2018 12:26 PM | Tom Miles

Posted on 11/02/2018 9:21:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The caravan of migrants making its way through Mexico is “kind of a normal event” and the United States ought not to reinforce its border against them, a United Nations official said on Friday. […]

Joel Millman, a spokesman for the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), told a U.N. briefing in Geneva there had been similar caravans for many years, and the group was still hundreds of miles away from the United States.

“So (using) words like ‘invasion’ and things like that is assuming that this is a new phenomenon which is a drastic emergency, and I don’t think that anyone at IOM would share that view,” he said.

“This is kind of a normal event.”

Militarized frontiers tended not to deter people from crossing borders, he added. Instead, they increased the profits of criminal people-smuggling gangs and led to deaths among migrants.

“Militarizing the border is not something we are ever in favor of,” he said. […]

“We are calling for humanity and taking things away from politics,” Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, said at the briefing. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; babar; caravan; illegals; invaders; iom; millman; trumpun; un; unhcr
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1 posted on 11/02/2018 9:21:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If they really cared about humanity, why aren’t they demanding that corrupt countries stop being corrupt?


2 posted on 11/02/2018 9:23:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: Olog-hai

What the hell does this doofus know?


3 posted on 11/02/2018 9:25:33 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: Olog-hai

If the migrant caravan is normal then we should build a wall.


4 posted on 11/02/2018 9:25:40 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: HIDEK6

What the hell does this doofus know?

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The arrogant, elitist globalist bastard can go to hell and the USA should pull out of the UN. Then the bastards would all have to find jobs because we pay most of their salaries.


5 posted on 11/02/2018 9:29:16 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Olog-hai

UN OUT OF US


6 posted on 11/02/2018 9:30:07 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Olog-hai

Death is normal. Ignore the rifle barrel pointed in your direction.


7 posted on 11/02/2018 9:30:25 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just because Germany forced this crap down the throat of europe does not mean it is normal.

Do.Not.Let.Them.In


8 posted on 11/02/2018 9:30:48 PM PDT by JParris
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To: Olog-hai

When will the UN realize that America is no longer run by an idiot? It can continue to be a country club for despots and sadistic tyrants but we are through being a part of it. America is great again.


9 posted on 11/02/2018 9:31:04 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Olog-hai
The United States as a sovereign nation, decides what is the "view" as it pertains to determining reality. And DJT didn't say it was an invasion. He said it's "like an invasion."

Words mean stuff.

10 posted on 11/02/2018 9:31:31 PM PDT by Salvavida
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UN should stuff their head up their rectum and inhale.
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11 posted on 11/02/2018 9:32:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai

I know it’s been talked about for more than half a century, but I think Trump has the backing to actually pull the UN out of the US. Wherever they end up afterward, the UN would just wither and die.

It’s ALWAYS been an organization whose motto is “Stick it to the US ... However possible.”


12 posted on 11/02/2018 9:33:11 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Olog-hai

First, what country is this guy from? Second, Trump should tell the UN to butt out. Give notice to cut funding and lock down the UN.


13 posted on 11/02/2018 9:33:12 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Olog-hai

Disregard this highly paid , poorly read Globalist Liar.


14 posted on 11/02/2018 9:33:28 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Olog-hai

Every time the UN says something antagonistic to the US it should lose another million dollars in funding.


15 posted on 11/02/2018 9:34:39 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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To: Olog-hai

This just proves that the UN is part of the operation to take down sovereign countries and replace them with the NWO.


16 posted on 11/02/2018 9:35:16 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks for the input, Joel. 14,000 people in columns heading to crash the border is not “kind of normal” and it is an invasion and it’s going to stop. One way or the other. Sell your soothing crap to the Euros, it isn’t selling here.


17 posted on 11/02/2018 9:35:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

Pull out of the UN. Send them to Babylon.


18 posted on 11/02/2018 9:35:54 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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19 posted on 11/02/2018 9:36:48 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: editor-surveyor

They probably do that too much already.


20 posted on 11/02/2018 9:41:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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