Thread: EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief

By Brian Wheeler Political reporter, BBC News
June 21, 2012


Peter Sutherland's global migration forum brings together 160 nations to discuss policy



The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special representative for migration has said.


Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.


He also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law.

He was being quizzed by the Lords EU home affairs sub-committee which is investigating global migration.


Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas.


He told the House of Lords committee migration was a "crucial dynamic for economic growth" in some EU nations "however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states".


'More open'
An ageing or declining native population in countries like Germany or southern EU states was the "key argument and, I hesitate to the use word because people have attacked it, for the development of multicultural states", he added.


"It's impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them. Just as the United Kingdom has demonstrated."

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At the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice”

Peter Sutherland UN special representative for migration

The UN special representative on migration was also quizzed about what the EU should do about evidence from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that employment rates among migrants were higher in the US and Australia than EU countries.


He told the committee: "The United States, or Australia and New Zealand, are migrant societies and therefore they accommodate more readily those from other backgrounds than we do ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others.


"And that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine."


Mr Sutherland recently argued, in a lecture to the London School of Economics, of which he is chairman, that there was a "shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states" and the EU's ability to compete at a "global level" was at risk.


'No justification'
In evidence to the Lords committee, he urged EU member states to work together more closely on migration policy and advocated a global approach to the issue - criticising the UK government's attempt to cut net migration from its current level to "tens of thousands" a year through visa restrictions.


British higher education chiefs want non-EU overseas students to be exempted from migration statistics and say visa restrictions brought in to help the government meet its target will damage Britain's economic competitiveness.


But immigration minister Damian Green has said exempting foreign students would amount to "fiddling" the figures and the current method of counting was approved by the UN.


Committee chairman Lord Hannay, a crossbench peer and a former British ambassador to the UN, said Mr Green's claim of UN backing for including students in migration figures "frankly doesn't hold water - this is not a piece of international law".


Mr Sutherland, a former Attorney General of Ireland, agreed, saying: "Absolutely not. it provides absolutely no justification at all for the position they are talking about."


'UK support'
He said the policy risked Britain's traditional status as "tolerant, open society" and would be "massively damaging" to its higher education sector both financially and intellectually.


"It's very important that we should not send a signal from this country, either to potential students of the highest quality, or to academic staff, that this is in some way an unsympathetic environment in which to seek visas or whatever other permissions are required... and I would be fearful that that could be a signal."


Mr Sutherland, who has attended meetings of The Bilderberg Group, a top level international networking organization often criticized for its alleged secrecy, called on EU states to stop targeting "highly skilled" migrants, arguing that "at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice" about whether to come and study or work in another country.


Mr Sutherland also briefed the peers on plans for the Global Migration and Development Forum's next annual conference in Mauritius in November, adding: "The UK has been very constructively engaged in this whole process from the beginning and very supportive of me personally."

Asked afterwards how much the UK had contributed to the forum's running costs in the six years it had been in existence, he said it was a relatively small sum in the region of "tens of thousands".

BBC News - EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief

The global elite through the UN is running the show and it seems that they already consider themselves to be the overlords of every country with no respect to sovereignty. From the UN website as an example. This is exactly what the UN puppet administration in Washington is doing.

“Liberty is the rule, detention is the exception,” says the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants

Excerpt:

“The issue of migration detention is of paramount concern, given the growing tendency of states to detain migrants in an irregular situation, and in light of the wide range of human rights issues that such detention potentially has on those persons,’’ Mr. Crépeau said.

“Immigration detention should never be mandatory or automatic. It should be a measure of last resort, only permissible for the shortest period of time and when no less restrictive measure is available,” he stressed. “Governments have an obligation to establish a presumption in favour of liberty in domestic law, and should consider progressively abolishing the administrative detention of migrants.”

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/

We are a Republic and we have never elected the UN to govern us. Globalist agents embedded in our government are allowing this through "treaties" that give away our sovereignty. JMO

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Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.

1. The United States was created by immigrants. But, it has never embraced "multi-culturism". The case for successful immigration to the US has traditionally been based on assimilation of immigrants into US society. While US society typically embraces the unique aspects of immigrant culture such as cuisine, the arts, histories, etc. we do not segregate them, but fold them into the melting pot instead. Meanwhile, most immigrants have willingly and enthusiastically embraced the core aspects of US society, such as our political system, education system, economic system, etc. Moreover they have traditionally made extraordinary efforts to blend into society by learning our language, celebrating our traditionsk etc. Sutherland does not get it. He does not understand why immigration USED to work in the US and that because of multi-culturism, unwillingness of many new immigrants to assimilate, demands that we structure our schools and society to accommodate them rather than they adapt to our schools and to our society immigration can no longer be said to be a an overall positive for the US. Especially the open borders type of immigration that places illegal immigration on the same level as legal immigration.

2. The one-world folks are still trying to prove the 'earth is flat' and this is the only way for third world countries to emerge from poverty and to ascend to the levels of major industrialized nations. Again, they do not understand, or deliberately do not want to recognize what has made the US so successful. Self determination. Capitalism. Individuals, innovators, pioneers taking responsibility for their own lives and destiny. Not relying on a communist or socialist state to nursemaid them. Yet this is exactly what is causing the EU to fail, and the EU leaders' only answer is to throw other people's money, especially Germany's, at the problems and that approach never works because it does not address and fix the core problem(s). What are the core problems? Communist/socialist based economies and governments; unlimited immigration; undermining the sovereignty of the member nations; multiculturalism.

3. I do not understand why those who were so anxious to END racial apartheid in Africa are so hell-bent on imposing cultural apartheid on the world.

The one-world folks are still trying to prove the 'earth is flat' and this is the only way for third world countries to emerge from poverty and to ascend to the levels of major industrialized nations.

I think many of these countries through religious and cultural restraints have kept themselves in poverty. Look at the people that have been running the UN for the last 30 years, they have potentates of third world countries and have used their positions to create "agendas" that take from successful countries to take care their people because they have been too busy stuffing their pockets with the UN ( US) cash. I could wrong but that is my impression.

That guy is rather ugly, to say the least. He looks a crime syndicate boss, doesn't he....

" I am going to make you a deal you can't refuse"

ACTION NEEDED HERE!!!!

http://www.alipac.us/f8/alipac-amnes...lly-us-260062/