UN Migration Pact

[Black Orchid]

Criticising migration could become a criminal offence.

[Black Orchid]

A pact known as the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is slated to be adopted at an intergovernmental conference on December 10 and 11 in Marrakech, Morocco — but there are big problems with it.

It comprises 23 objectives for better managing migration at all levels.

Initially, all 193 U.N. member nations, except for the United States, backed it.

But now some countries have reversed course and are echoing America’s concerns about it.

The document represents an “intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that covers all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner.” It’s the first-ever such agreement and was conceived after the biggest influx of migrants into Europe since World War II, as the U.K.’s Express noted.

But the agreement, if ratified, would actually threaten national sovereignty, criminalize anti-migration speech, thwart freedom of the press, and maybe even establish a problematic legal framework.

Among other things, governments are asked to “promote independent, objective and quality reporting … and [to stop] allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants,” as the Express also noted.

Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland all are among the countries following the United States’ lead in refusing to sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Express reported Sunday.

And British citizens now want their government to oppose it, too.

Prime Minister Theresa May, however, has not yet issued a response to their plea, as Breitbart noted.

A petition in Britain is simply titled, “The UK should not agree the to UN’s Global Compact for Migration.”

As of Sunday afternoon, the petition garnered more than 62,500 signatories and was literally gaining signatures every few seconds.

If the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, Parliament will consider it for debate, according to the petition’s web page.

The legally non-binding compact was reportedly shaped largely by the pro-mass migration government of Germany’s Angela Merkel — who launched an “unusually passionate” defense of it in November — and has proved hugely controversial, with countries led by national populist governments pulling out one after another as its shape became clear, as Breitbart reported.

In late 2017 the Trump administration, via the then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, said, “We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country … The global approach in the [compact] is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.”

Though leftists in the U.S. wholeheartedly embrace pro-immigration initiatives, there’s one objective in the compact that reaffirms the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants that they may find particularly troublesome.

In support of Objective 1, “collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies,” paragraph “G” reads, “Improve national data collection by integrating migration-related topics in national censuses, as early as practicable, such as on country of birth, country of birth of parents, country of citizenship, country of residence five years prior to the census, most recent arrival date and reason for migrating, to ensure timely analysis and dissemination of results, disaggregated and tabulated in accordance with international standards, for statistical purposes.”

When the controversial decision to include “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” as a question on the 2020 census arose last March, many on the Left balked.

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is being sued for it — six times over.

The consolidated lawsuits comprise 18 states and the District of Columbia, several counties and immigrant-aid groups, as the Economist reported earlier this month.

Such a question, of course, raises concerns for many on the Left who fear the possibility of losing population-apportioned seats in the House and billions in population-based allocation of federal funds, if it appears in the United States decennial census.

[Black Orchid]

Scott Morrison is following in Donald Trump's footsteps by refusing to sign a non-binding migration agreement which Australia helped draft.

Australian officials have been heavily active in negotiating the wording of the UN Global Compact on Migrant over the past two years.

But the prime minister says the UN pact would compromise Australia's border security and immigration settings.

"It doesn't distinguish between those who illegally enter Australia and those who come the right way," he told 2GB radio on Wednesday.

"I would never allow something to compromise our borders, I worked too hard to ensure that we weren't in that position."

The agreement is supposed to support safe, orderly and regular migration.

Mr Morrison argues the government has already achieved these goals.

The Refugee Council of Australia lashed out at the prime minister's "nonsense" excuses for refusing to sign the agreement.

"Australia will join a small group of governments which are each trying to appeal to, or appease, minority far-right political movements within their countries," its chief executive Paul Power said.

"It is hard to see the Australian government's decision as anything other than posturing for some political gain, as the facts do not align with the prime minister's claims."

The US, Israel, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria have also refused to sign the agreement.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said the compact was primarily focused on Europe, where asylum seekers were drowning at sea in the Mediterranean.

"I think this compact was largely directed at that problem, not towards our part of the world," he told Sky News.

Mr Dutton said Australia had stopped boat arrivals and drownings at sea through hardline border protection policies.

"We're not going to surrender that, we want our sovereignty to remain intact," he said.

https://www.newcastlestar.com.au/story/ ... t/?cs=7307

Have we pulled out or not? Very hush hush with only a week to go.

[Valkie]

We don't want no more world trash

We have enough world trash already

Living off our welfare, not contributing, criminal terrorists.

NO MORE WORLD TRASH

NO MORE WORLD TRASH

NO MORE WORLD TRASH

[Rorschach]

We are not signatories to it, I mentioned it a while back and thought I posted the result.
Mind you if Turnbull was still PM.....

[Rorschach]

yep, posted an article by john Stone in the Cut Immigration NOW topic back on the 15th.

[Black Orchid]

Well good for you

And we are not signatories YET! We didn't help draft it for nothing.

[FLEKTARN]

Thankfully Bulgaria did not sign it.

[Rorschach]

Well good for you

And we are not signatories YET! We didn't help draft it for nothing.

Good for me?
Not my point.
But your response and bias is not unexpected.

You might like to read John Stone's article... that was my point and why I posted it in the first place

[sprintcyclist]

Scott Morrison is following in Donald Trump's footsteps by refusing to sign a non-binding migration agreement which Australia helped draft.

Australian officials have been heavily active in negotiating the wording of the UN Global Compact on Migrant over the past two years.

But the prime minister says the UN pact would compromise Australia's border security and immigration settings.

"It doesn't distinguish between those who illegally enter Australia and those who come the right way," he told 2GB radio on Wednesday.

"I would never allow something to compromise our borders, I worked too hard to ensure that we weren't in that position."

The agreement is supposed to support safe, orderly and regular migration.

Mr Morrison argues the government has already achieved these goals.

The Refugee Council of Australia lashed out at the prime minister's "nonsense" excuses for refusing to sign the agreement.

"Australia will join a small group of governments which are each trying to appeal to, or appease, minority far-right political movements within their countries," its chief executive Paul Power said.

"It is hard to see the Australian government's decision as anything other than posturing for some political gain, as the facts do not align with the prime minister's claims."

The US, Israel, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria have also refused to sign the agreement.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said the compact was primarily focused on Europe, where asylum seekers were drowning at sea in the Mediterranean.

"I think this compact was largely directed at that problem, not towards our part of the world," he told Sky News.

Mr Dutton said Australia had stopped boat arrivals and drownings at sea through hardline border protection policies.

"We're not going to surrender that, we want our sovereignty to remain intact," he said.

https://www.newcastlestar.com.au/story/ ... t/?cs=7307

Have we pulled out or not? Very hush hush with only a week to go.

Well done Scott