Thread: UN chides U.S. over treatment of immigrants

United Nations "Committee on the Elimination of Racism" chides U.S. over treatment of immigrants

From their safe Geneva home, on Friday United Nations bureaucrats from the "Committee on the Elimination of Racism" (part of the U.N. "Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights") chided U.S. government representatives for a variety of alleged issues ranging from extraordinary rendition to police brutality to race-based disparities in sentencing to the treatment of legal and illegal immigrants and refugees (www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds72.htm).

The end of this leaps out: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j95m ... QD8UVGBN00

The U.N. panel discussed a broad range of other questions with the U.S. delegation, including police brutality against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, and the detention of illegal immigrants.

The experts based many of their questions on reports submitted by 120 representatives of U.S. human rights organizations who came to Geneva for the hearings.

Warren W. Tichenor, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said the discussions had been "collegial and extremely stimulating," and he was pleased to see a high number of U.S. rights groups attending the meeting.

One of those groups was, of course, the ACLU. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a list of all the groups involved and their work product (aka justification-for-existence) is so vast that I'm unable to point out all the ways that the unnamed U.N. censors got it wrong when it comes to illegal immigration.

However, a quick glance shows that, like others on the far-left, they're a bit parochial in their thinking. They support labor rights for all, but they fail to recognize how enforcing immigration laws can help ensure such rights. They appear to support open borders or something close to it, without realizing how that hurts their supposed goals.

So, for instance, the "IMMIGRANT RIGHTS" file (USHRN3.doc) linked from ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds72-ngos-usa.htm correctly describes how crooked contractors were able to abuse illegal aliens in New Orleans after Katrina. However, they don't seem able to get their heads around how enforcing immigration laws would have both prevented such abuses and also avoided contractors being able to pass over U.S. citizens. They also don't go in to how the Democratic Party leadership was complicit in Bush's scheme to move out the former residents and move in illegal aliens from Mexico.

And consider this:

76. On the heels of the Eastern District of PA ruling the Hazelton ordinance unconstitutional, PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe issued a report "Invasion PA: National Security Begins at Home Keystone State Report," which leads with the following inflammatory call to action: "With the federal government currently AWOL in fulfilling its Constitutional responsibilities to protect American lives, property and jobs against the clear and present dangers of illegal immigration, many states and local governments are left with no choice but to take individual action to address this important issue." The report lists as offenses purportedly committed by unauthorized migrants, "homicide, identity theft, property theft, serious infectious diseases, drug running, gang violence, human trafficking, terrorism and growing cost to taxpayers," but the report reveals no accounting for racial profiling or discrimination in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion and criminal enforcement, and it demonstrates a presumption of guilt rather than innocence in the arrests and detentions (rather than convictions) listed.

That's not so inflammatory, and surely even the UN isn't saying that illegal aliens don't commit the listed crimes. The report is here: http://repmetcalfe.com/?sectionid=117&sectiontree=117 The fact remains that illegal aliens are here and commit crimes, and any justice system abuses are a separate issue and can be dealt with in addition to deporting the illegal aliens involved. Apparently the UN is trying to wallpaper over the fact that those who shouldn't be here in the first place commit crimes by bringing up completely unfounded allegations of abuse.

As for what they find non-inflammatory:
[quote]50. A soon-to-be-released report titled "Over-Raided, Under Siege" analyzing 100 stories of human rights abuses, interviews with community leaders and summaries of numerous reports and data to better understand these patterns of human rights violations, concluded: the humanitarian crisis at the border has reached new heights as migrant deaths hit record numbers and the federal government pours billions of dollars into militarizing the region; immigrants are being detained at increasing rates and housed in detention facilities with inhumane living conditions; local law enforcement threaten public safety and community policing efforts by collaborating with federal immigration agents and the racial profiling of immigrants and persons perceived to be unlawfully in the United States; and employers continue to exploit workers using Social Security “no-matchâ€

I guess the UN considers the ACLU to be a representative non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides a counterbalance for the official government reports. That might be a good standard for countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran----but since the US has provided the safe haven for the United Nations ever since its inception do they really think we would be fraudulent in our information to them?

We need to get the ACLU out of there as an NGO----in fact, let them set up operations somewhere in Cental Asia if they are really that devoted to human rights. I agree an NGO for victims of mass migration would be more appropriate.

It's time to disband the UN! Their theory is totally upside down...it's American citizens who are being 'victimized' by the invasion of tens of millions of IA's, and the Islamic radicals who are beginning to infiltrate our country!

The new global weapon of mass destruction is six letter word...RACISM! It's ironic becauce our government treats illegals, visa holders, and refugees better than our own citizens! Where else would 2 border agents be imprisoned for 11 years for having the audacity to shoot an illegal coccaine dealer in the arse??? Only in America!!!

If we are guilty of such heinous human rights violations...why is every single third worlder trying to break into this country? The problem is that we are TOO good to these ungrateful wretches!!! The minute they start whining about human rights violations, we should throw them out of this country immediately!

Unfortunately, we don't have a leader who has the guts to tell them to go to hell! We need to try a little 'tough love'..cut off all financial aid. lock up the borders, and clean up our own house! Bring them to their knees!

If things are so fuc***g bad for the ILLEGAL INVADERS, why don't they GO THE HELL HOME. Why is everyone up in our business?

deliberately force immigrants to leave or exist in the shadows.

* 'Living in the shadows' is self-induced by not assiliminating and not learning English.

the humanitarian crisis at the border has reached new heights as migrant deaths hit record numbers and the federal government pours billions of dollars into militarizing the region;

I read there were over two hundred deaths a year while attempting to cross the border. What this article fails to address and what is not told to the U.N. concerning this 'humanitarian crisis' is the circumstances leading to some of the deaths.
* Woman abandoned by her group when she broke her leg and couldn't keep up. A second group passed her and left her. A member of the second group, when captured by the border patrol, reported her and she was rescued by the border patrol.
* 14 year old girl abandoned by a group which included family members--she died.
* Most recent: Monday, February 25, 2008

A mother and her 7-year-old son were dehydrated. He was suffering from exposure. She was unable to walk.

They were rescued by the U.S. Border Patrol recently after an illegal alien smuggler had left them for dead.

After paying an unknown sum to get across the U.S. border from Mexico, they had become a liability to the smuggler.

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... c&p=632529

In these examples the cause of the 'border humanitarian crisis' are the smugglers and group members who devalue life by abandoning a fellow human being and leaving that person to die. The U.N. should "chide" the smugglers and the illegal immigrants--especially those risking their children's lives.

The humanitarians are the U.S. border agents who rescue the abandoned left to die.

What about the 25 Americans who are killed each day by illegal immigrants?
*Four children died and others injured in the MN school bus accident at the hands of an illegal immigrant, illegally here in our country, illegally running a stop sign while illegally driving to an illegal job she obtained with illegal documents.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." — Joseph Goebbels