Select date
UN Chief: Uncontrolled Migration Is In America’s ‘National Interest’
UN chief William Lacy Swing has urged President Trump to open up America’s borders to “any and all immigrants” – claiming it’s in America’s best interests.
The Migration Agency Director-General said he is concerned that Trump’s “anti-migrant” policies are based on “false stereotypes and unfounded fear.”
Breitbart.com reports: “People say … we don’t want any migrants, build a wall and burn the bridge,” Swing sneered. “They identify [migrants] as ‘the other’. That is a big fear,” he claimed.
The former U.S. diplomat issued his thinly veiled attack on President Trump in an interview with the Korea Herald, buttressing it with a sustained assault on populism more generally.
“It is very toxic in nature, built on a lot of false stereotypes that they are coming to take our jobs and bringing in criminal elements, probably bringing in diseases. None of which was proved,” he claimed.
The statement seems incredible, considering the ferocious violence which migration-background organised gangs like MS-13 are known to employ in the United States, or the mass sex attacks by migrants on New Year’s Eve in Germany, among other examples.
In terms of disease, it has also long been established that mass migration from the Global South is worsening public health in the West, with migrants known to have doubled the rate of HIV, trebled the rate of tuberculosis, and increased by twentyfold the rate of hepatitis B in the United Kingdom as long ago as 2003.
Our @IOMchief warns against widespread anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment around the
