THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
NOW ALL MIGRANTS HAVE REFUGEE RIGHTS?
Curtis Ellis Covers U.N. Push For 'Free Movement of People' Across Borders
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WND - Nov 7, 2015
UNITED NATIONS The free flow of people, goods and money across borders was the founding principle of the European Union. The bipartisan Wall Street-Washington establishment now wants to impose it on the U.S. and the rest of the world.
What began as a common market for goods moving duty-free from the Mediterranean to the North Sea evolved into a superstate with Eurocrats in Brussels regulating everything from cheese to refugees.
While European policymakers initially sought to expedite the movement of steel, wheat and other goods, the free movement of people has captured the imagination of the global thinkers in Geneva, Washington and New York.The project of a world without borders soon outgrew its cradle in Brussels.
The U.N.s 1951 Convention on Refugees obligates the nations of the world to grant asylum to those facing persecution at home owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. Such refugees are to be given the same rights as citizens.
But that was just the beginning. While some people are impelled to flee from persecution at home, others choose to move abroad.
The U.N. now says people seeking jobs in the U.S. or Western Europe are survival migrants and should be treated no differently than refugees fleeing oppression. Human rights are for all, say the panjandrums of Turtle Bay, and these survival migrants should be treated as equal rights holders, regardless of their migratory status in relation to the sovereign territory they find themselves in. In other words, they should have full rights as citizens no matter what country they find themselves in.
Peter Sutherland, the U.N. secretary generals special representative on migration, who previously served as the first director-general of the World Trade Organization and has been called the father of globalization, says all individuals should have a freedom of choice about where to live and work, regardless of whether their home country is engulfed in war or not. He wants to see a shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states.
Another U.N. expert on migration, François Crépeau, flatly declares that people should be able to move as freely between Mexico and Chicago as they do now between New York and Phoenix. He says, Attempting to seal borders and the over-emphasis on the secularization of borders is not going to reduce irregular migration in the long run.
The solution? What is required is a commitment by all EU member states and hopefully many more countries in the global north and in the global south to resettle over a certain number of years a meaningful number of refugees (most probably in the millions), Crépeau says.
What began as an offer to provide safe haven to minorities who find themselves persecuted at home has morphed into an obligation to feed the majority of humanity that finds itself hungry at home.
Whether considered migrants, asylum seekers or refugees, all are entitled to a protection response based on international law, in particular the human rights law, humanitarian law, and refugee law treaty framework. All policies and practices aimed at effectively responding to this phenomenon of increasingly mixed migration movements
must be fully in line with these norms and principles, the U.N. declares. [Emphasis added.]
These open-border policies are couched as appeals to human rights, freedom of choice and ending poverty.
But perhaps coincidentally, the free movement of people finds avid support in C suites from Goldman Sachs to General Electric.
Should this crowd have its way, we can expect the law of supply and demand to trump human rights law.
As the supply of labor increases exponentially, a worker anywhere in the world will soon find it difficult to demand much more than what survival migrants now earn at home.
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