Boris Johnson’s government has reaffirmed its commitment to the United Nations’ controversial Global Compact for Migration, rejected by the Trump administration in the United States, and by conservative-led governments in countries including Australia, Poland, and Hungary.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has labelled mass migration a threat to humanity during a counter-terrorism conference that took place in Vienna this week.
The Vatican’s foreign minister said this week that “history is made of migrations” while insisting that migration has always been a good thing for humanity.
The UN Migration Agency/International Organization for Migration (IOM) has hailed the arrival of its “first” planeload of 154 Somali migrants to Germany, along with dozens of Syrians transported to Romania using European Union funds.
A cross-party committee of MPs has demanded Britain double the number of refugees imported directly from the third world, and to expand the working rights of asylum seekers.
The Hungarian government is warning that the EU’s unelected executive and Germany’s Angela Merkel want to take away national governments’ power to control their own borders and turn Europe into “a continent of immigrants”.
Hungarian Cabinet spokesman Zoltán Kovács has said pro-migrant proposals agreed by the UN and EU show they “are serious about legalising illegal migration, contrary to the will of the people.”
(AFP) — Parts of France have become “unlivable” because of migrants, Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has said, using rhetoric similar to Donald Trump’s before he became the U.S. president.
The French army is reportedly considering disciplinary action against generals who allegedly referred to French president Emmanuel Macron as a “traitor” for signing the UN Global Compact for Migration.
A leading immigration think tank has said that the United Kingdom’s adoption of the UN’s migration pact “all but violates” the government’s pledge to cut immigration.
The British government has finally issued a response to the rapidly growing official petition against the United Nations Global Compact for Migration.
“Marrakech C’est Non!” says one of the banners wielded by the Gilets Jaunes at the protests in Paris this weekend: “No to Marrakesh!”
MPs must consider an official petition against the United Nations Global Compact for Migration after it smashed 100,000 signatures.
Dutch Yellow Vests have planned action across The Netherlands to protest against “political correctness,” immigration policies, and to call for the resignation of liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
