Thread: UN Pushes to Designate Illegal Immigrants From Central America as Refugees

UN Pushes to Designate Illegal Immigrants From Central America as Refugees
Written by Raven Clabough




The United Nations continues to attempt to exert its unfounded authority in the affairs of the United States, this time by involving itself in the border crisis.

On the southern border of the United States, an influx of thousands of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, has been migrating from Central America and finding that housing facilities are overflowing. Local communities across the country, including in California and New York, have refused to permit overflow shelters to house the immigrant children to be opened.

The cost of the crisis for the American people is staggering. Taxpayer money is used to secure space for the detention and feeding of the illegal immigrants. In June, the White House announced a plan to spend millions by sending aid to governments in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to help reduce crime and violence in an "effort" to reduce immigration.

The response from the Obama administration has been ineffectual at best, and the president has taken what some critics view as an "aloof" position on the crisis. Enter the United Nations, which, unsurprisingly, has interests other than that of the United States to protect in this crisis.

WorldNetDaily reported, "Representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHRC, are 'intensely discussing in meetings' the possibility of extending U.N. protection to the thousands of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border with Mexico illegally by defining them as 'refugees' who are seeking asylum from political and domestic violence in their home nations, WND has confirmed."

A 10-nation meeting in Nicaragua was held last week with ministers from the United States, Mexico and various Central American countries. Those in attendance included representatives from SICA, an El-Salvador-headquartered non-government organization endorsed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 to create regional bodies authorized to interact with the United Nations.

Preliminary reports indicate that the officials concluded that the illegal aliens are "refugees" and therefore deserve international protection. The ministers cited the United Nation's declaration on the rights of refugees.

"They are leaving for some reason. Let's not send them back in a mechanical way, but rather evaluate the reasons they left their country," Fernando Protti, regional representative for the UN refugee agency, told the Associated Press.

Officials close to the UN discussions have told WND that it's a "tricky situation" since the Central American immigrants do not belong to any group that has been designated by the United Nations as victims of political or religious persecution.

NBC News observed that the designation would be unprecedented. "Central Americans would be among the first modern migrants considered refugees for fleeing violence and extortion at the hands of criminal gangs," writes NBC News.

While a UN resolution asking the illegal immigrants to be declared as "refugees" would lack any legal weight in the United States, the agency said it believes "the U.S. and Mexico should recognize that this is a refugee situation, which implies that they shouldn't be automatically sent to their home countries but rather receive international protection."

"Unaccompanied children and families who fear for their lives and freedoms must not be forcibly returned without access to proper asylum procedures," UNHCR official Leslie Velez said in testimony submitted to the House Judiciary Committee late last month.

It is highly unlikely that the American people would support the designation of the illegal aliens as refugees, particularly since little has changed in Central America, where violence and poverty were always an issue. The American Thinker's Doris O'Brien wrote:

There's nothing new about the deplorable conditions in Central America. Poverty and waves of violence have been threatening people there for decades. But not until a way was devised to misinterpret an immigration law did the widespread exodus of children to the Promised Land actually come to pass. Forget the buses and trains. These wayward kids were transported here in ... the modern-day equivalent of the Trojan Horse.

Similarly, NBC News reported:

Honduras has the world's highest homicide rate for a nation not at war. In El Salvador, the end of a truce between street gangs has led to a sharp rise in homicides. Violence spread in recent decades after members of California street gangs were deported to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where they overwhelmed weak and corrupt police forces.

A press release is expected to be released on the meeting in Nicaragua sometime this week.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration's response to the crisis continues to be challenged as inept and inconsistent. Obama has indicated he plans to use executive action to improve border security, an announcement that Politico's Rich Lowry notes "has a man-bites-dog feel to it after all of the administration's executive actions to undermine immigration."

What's worse is that the Obama administration had reportedly been warned of the impending border crisis over the past two years as a surge of Central American minors had been crossing into south Texas illegally.

The Washington Post reported:

Nearly a year before President Obama declared a humanitarian crisis on the border, a team of experts arrived at the Fort Brown patrol station in Brownsville, Tex., and discovered a makeshift transportation depot for a deluge of foreign children.

Thirty Border Patrol agents were assigned in August 2013 to drive the children to off-site showers, wash their clothes and make them sandwiches. As soon as those children were placed in temporary shelters, more arrived. An average of 66 were apprehended each day on the border and more than 24,000 cycled through Texas patrol stations in 2013.

And one former senior federal law-enforcement official told the Washington Post that Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had warned the White House of the potential for a significant surge of migrant children at the border as early as 2012.

Further, the border crisis is hurting any chance for President Obama to enact "immigration reform." According to a July poll by the Pew Research Center, the majority of Americans support expediting the process of deporting Central American children who are in the United States illegally. Likewise, a majority disapprove of the way President Obama has handled illegal immigration.


http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews...ca-as-refugees

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Immigration Protesters Clash at U.N., Fear Risks of Border Surge

NEW YORK — More than 40 people, many representing conservative or anti-illegal immigration groups, protested Saturday at the United Nations Plaza against the surge of immigrants to the United States' southern border. The demonstrators cited alleged economic and medical harm undocumented immigrants would do to the U.S.

The protest was one in a series of more than 300 that began Friday in an effort led by three national conservative groups: Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, Overpasses for America, and Make Them Listen. This particular demonstration was led by New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement (NYICE) and joined by members of New Jersey Citizens for Immigration Control, with several other fringe conservative groups.

See also: How the U.S. Border Became a Humanitarian Crisis

"We apparently have a president who has a different agenda than the vast majority of the American people," said Jim MacDonald, a registered Democrat and member of NYICE. "

You can't have a country unless you have a real border.

You can't have a country unless you have a real border. He has shown no sign at all that he has any interest in enforcing us having a real border."

Tens of thousands of immigrants from Central and South American countries have been fleeing home and illegally crossing into the U.S. since late 2011. However, these numbers have skyrocketed in the past few months, and could reach 90,000 immigrants by the end of the year, according to the Los Angeles Times. The federal government has been detaining many immigrants in housing facilities across the country instead of turning them back.

These actions infuriate men like Brad Morris, a South African immigrant. "Obama has no respect for the laws of the country, " he said, blaming the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program the president started in 2012. The program, which grants temporary legal status to eligible undocumented immigrants, only applies to those who were in the United States before the program started.

"You have all these parasites marching over the border, and then they use the kids as an emotional issue," said Morris. "Why should we care? Why should they be the problem of the American tax payer?"

Many of the protesters insisted that an influx of undocumented immigrants would lower wages and take jobs away from citizens and those with legal status. However, several studies from the federal government and both liberal and conservative think tanks state that immigration benefits the economy more than it harms it.

A 2007 study conducted by the Congressional Budget Office found that undocumented immigrants contribute more the American economy than what they take away in services used. A 2011 study conducted by the fiscally conservative American Enterprise Institute found "no evidence that foreign-born workers, taken in the aggregate, hurt U.S. employment," even under the current immigration pattern.

See also: Anti-Illegal Immigration Coalition Plans Weekend of Protests Throughout U.S.

Beyond economics, some protesters claimed the new immigrants would bring diseases with them, since they were forgoing the formal medical check necessary to enter the country legally.


Bring us your smallpox, bring us your malaria, your scabies

Bring us your smallpox, bring us your malaria, your scabies," one woman sneered toward a small group of counter-protesters, riffing off of the Emma Lazarus poem engraved at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty.

Scott Seddon, a member of the staunchly conservative group American Patriot the III%, said he was concerned about his daughter falling ill to a disease an undocumented immigrant brought into the country, and insisted it was Obama's policies that are behind the surge.

However, more children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador than the United States are vaccinated for measles, according to UNICEF, and the Department of Justice is screening all detained immigrant children for tuberculosis.

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The protest was one in a series of more than 300 happening around the country Friday and Saturday.

Image: Mashable, Sylvan Lane

While the stated goal of the protest was raising awareness about the crises at the border, some members of the anti-illegal immigration crowd focused squarely on impeaching Obama. They criticized his handling of Iraq, the IRS targeting investigation and the 2011 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The protesters also squared off with six counter-demonstrators across the street from the United Socialist Party. They were there to protest "the hateful message" of the anti-illegal immigration groups and advocate for a world without borders, which they consider "a construct of the ruling class," said member Dave Schmauch.

"[The anti-illegal immigration] protesters think the solution to this is like an armed camp where everyone looks the same," he said.

One Mexican immigrant who joined the counter-protest declined an interview, but insisted that while people can do illegal things, a person himself cannot be illegal. He waved a Mexican flag and carried a sign that looked to be a map of what's now the southwest U.S. before it became American territory.

While most of the anti-illegal immigration protesters refrained from racial or ethnic remarks, several told the man to go back to Mexico, and another offered to bring a large order of tacos across the street. Other protesters audibly and physically distanced themselves from charged comments like those, and tried to keep the protest clean and on-topic.

"No profanity!," shouted Morris to his fellow protesters. "They're the dirty ones," pointing out the counter demonstration.

The two groups shouted, chanted and picketed back and forth as passersby walked in between. Some took pictures as they walked through, and others offered a horn-honk or thumbs-up to their favored side. But while the anti-illegal immigration group was significantly louder and bigger than their more subdued opponents, most people who walked by the demonstrations supported a more human-rights oriented take on the immigration crisis.

"I can't imagine the amount of hatred that would have to be in your heart to want to deny the American Dream when America is founded on welcoming all people," said Muriel MacDonald (no relation). She briefly joined the counter-demonstration with three friends as they were on their way to a Brooklyn flea market.

"It's symbolic of fear and hatred. I'm sad that they're waving the American flag with these signs," she said.

http://mashable.com/2014/07/20/immig...nited-nations/

U.N. seeking to intervene in U.S. border crisis
Global body would protect illegals as 'refugees'
07/14/2014 at 4:25 PM
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Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Who Really Killed Kennedy?"
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UNITED NATIONS – Representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHRC, are “intensely discussing in meetings” the possibility of extending U.N. protection to the thousands of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border with Mexico illegally by defining them as “refugees” who are seeking asylum from political and domestic violence in their home nations, WND has confirmed.

Officials privy to the U.N. discussions have explained to WND it’s “a tricky situation,” because the Central American immigrants are not part of any group the U.N. has designated as victims of political or religious persecution.

A UNHCR official confirmed Monday to WND via email that a 10-nation meeting in Nicaragua of ministers of the interior from the U.S., Mexico and various Central American countries was held Thursday and Friday.

The ministers, according to preliminary reports obtained by WND, concluded the Central American illegal aliens are “refugees” deserving international protection under the auspices of the U.N. as they seek asylum in the U.S. The ministers cited the U.N.’s 30-year-old declaration on the rights of refugees.

Attending the meeting were UNHRC representatives, as well as representatives of SICA, the El Salvador-headquartered non-government organization known in English as Central American Integration System. The group was endorsed by the U.N. General Assembly in a resolution Dec. 10, 1993, to create regional bodies and institutions authorized to interact with the U.N. officially in an effort to unify Central American states politically and economically.

On Monday, the UNHRC in Colombia notified WND the U.N. would issued a press release Tuesday afternoon on last week’s 10-nation meeting in Nicaragua, after receiving comments from SICA and the host country.

In 1991, SICA was created by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, with Belize becoming a full member in 2013. SICA includes the U.S., Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay and Colombia as regional observers.

Delia M. Arias De Léon, a Wellesley College political science student currently serving as a WND intern at the U.N. in New York City, contributed to this article.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/u-n-seeki...eD0gi15u1wq.99

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The UN should be located on an island somewhere and take in all of the people from around the world that that want to thrust on our shores.

The United Nations continues to attempt to exert its unfounded authority in the affairs of the United States

None of their business imo.

Then the US has to cut all diplomatic ties and aid to those countries that are sending their poverty.. We cannot continue to support failed communist states.

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