Posted on 12/04/2017 6:56:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The United Nations received a bit of unwelcome, though probably expected news from the White House this weekend via U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The organization’s New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (which you can read about here) had been given a thumbs up by the Obama administration last year and sought to impose guidelines on the acceptance of various “migrants” and refugees by member nations. The agreement has one less member as of this morning, however, because Haley basically told the U.N. to pack sand. (NBC News)
The United States has walked away from a United Nations effort to ease the global migration and refugee crisis, with the Trump administration saying it was no longer compatible with U.S. principles or priorities on the issue.
In a statement, the U.S. Mission said the UN’s New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants — recognized by the U.S. last year under the Obama administration — “contains numerous provisions that are inconsistent with U.S. immigration and refugee policies.”
Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, said: “Our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone. We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter the country.”
Rex Tillerson jumped onboard quickly, agreeing with the President and Nikki Haley. The agreement was designed to pave the way for the more sweeping Global Compact for Migration this year.
Unfortunately for the United Nations, these plans are essentially antithetical to current United States policy. It’s not up to any global organization to dictate how many migrants individual nation states “must” take in or what processes will be used to determine those numbers. Portions of Europe may be fine with having such decisions made for them (though the number of EU members willing to go along with this is shrinking by the month) but look at the results it’s brought them. Such policies are the primary reason that Angela Merkel has still been unable to form a new, ruling government coalition weeks after the last round of German elections.
And even some of the member nations who signed on to the agreement clearly had no intention of honoring it. Just last week we discussed the situation in Japan, where they have taken in all of three refugees this year and informed the U.N. that they have zero intention of being rushed into taking any more. Meanwhile, back in the EU, Hungary has been thumbing their nose at Brussels for going on two years now and there doesn’t seem to be a thing they can do about it.
I realize that the entire concept of “globalism” has become a bone of contention in American politics, particularly in the past couple of years. This agreement with the United Nations was a prime example of just how far such concepts can lead us off track. This was a strong statement from the White House letting the U.N. know that the new management was not going to be bound by agreements entered into by the Obama administration which carry the force of treaties but are not approved by Congress. Well done.
Trump pulled US out of the pact.
Haley wanted US to stay in it.
She simply delivered the message.
What, no death by a million trojan horses?
Dammit. Instead of using the U.N., we’ll just have to get sneaky and give them sombreros and canteens. Oh wait...
Those days are over.
Great Idea to pull oil of that U.N.immigration agreement.The problem comes from taking in thousands of Muslim males who Australia wants to get out of their hair.
The Aussies don’t want the animals so why she we take them even after that idiot Obama’s agreed to take them here.President Trump should refrain from allowing the importation of these people until further notice.since it’s not in the best interests of the United States and the American People.
Haley wanted US to stay in it.
Had not seen that. Did she say it somewhere?
True, but she has always only been the messenger, a point that she herself said when she took the position.
Now kick the UN out of the US and stop giving it US taxpayer dollars!
Well said. Anything that gets rid of the UN is a WIN!
Great move on the President’s part.....MAGA!
US out of UN
UN out of US
Crisis? What crisis? If there is any, the UN is doing a piss-poor job of working it. Sending poor, illiterate people to foreign lands with different languages and different cultures is a recipe for disaster (the bad side of me likes to think the UN knows this...).
Why isn't the UN working on the problems of why these people are leaving so they can stay in their birth nation (if they're not just being deported/forced out)?
Don't you think it's a little strange that the UN wants to settle migrants in the U.S. when I, as an American, would have a hard, if not impossible, time emigrating to... say... Australia?
obozo is a traitor WHO NEEDS A STRONG DDSE OF JUSTICE
They keep telling us children are hungry in the summer when school is out. Our homeless population is exploding. Schools are failing. Crime is up in the big cities.
We are 20 trillion in debt, and they want to bring in uneducated people by the millions.
Thank God for President Trump.
I think Paris, France would be a perfect fit for the UN.
Somewhere in the Turd World would be better
I wonder which judge in Hawaii will seek to overturn this? (yes, I know it is outside of their scope but so are a lot of things they seek to overturn).
Good place for UN and refugees too (assuming we have to tolerate either one)
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