Thread: UN warns against immigration clampdown

Human Development Report challenges common migration misconceptions

Human Development Report 2009

Bangkok — Allowing for migration—both within and between countries—has the potential to increase people’s freedom and improve the lives of millions around the world, according to the 2009 Human Development Report launched here today.

We live in a highly mobile world, where migration is not only inevitable but also an important dimension of human development. Nearly one billion—or one out of seven—people are migrants. The Report, Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development, demonstrates that migration can enhance human development for the people who move, for destination communities and for those who remain at home.

“Migration can be a force for good, contributing significantly to human development,â€

If the UN wants America to take in illegals and/or allow more third world people on our soil...........let THEM pay for the the illegals/poverty people and leave the American tax payers out of the financial loop.

Overcoming barriers lays out a core package of reforms, six ‘pillars’ that call for:

• Opening existing entry channels for more workers, especially those with low skills;
• Ensuring basic human rights for migrants, from basic services, like education and health care, to the right to vote;
• Lowering the transaction costs of migration;
• Finding collaborative solutions that benefit both destination communities and migrants;
• Easing internal migration; and
• Adding migration as a component for origin countries’ development strategies.

What is in the water at these people's buildings?
First, our unemployment is skyrocketing with no end in sight and Americans will soon take any job for any pay. Second, in this country the right to vote belongs only to legal citizens, although we have happily dealt out education and healthcare to illegals--no questions asked. Lowering the transaction costs of migration: talk to the human smugglers. Collaborative solutions have worked quite well--pssst, want child cheap for your sexual pleasure and house-cleaning duties? Easing internal migration--I have moved all over the place with no questions asked as I am not moving with 50 people stuffed inside a truck while I drive like a maniac to outrun the cops. And finally, the US is the largest contributor to the UN, gives foreign aid to almost all countries in the world, and we would all be happy to throw the UN out of NY, and not accept migrants to help the country of origin in their development--we are already giving them money, but they have to figure it out for themselves.
Russia is also in their criticism-sight: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-173388.html
Hopefully, the Russians will have the guts to tell them to stuff it, because we sure as hell don't seem to.