When Barack Obama ran for president, he spoke about “global citizenship.” Support of open borders for “refugees”, illegal immigrants alike – a “borderless world” - make him an enthusiastic partner in the UN’s campaign against national sovereignty
Obama Administration Cooperates with the UN on Open Borders
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--May 10, 2016
President Obama is reportedly planning to accelerate the screening process for Syrians claiming refugee status, so that they can be rapidly resettled in communities across the United States.
The Washington Beacon has reported that, according to its sources, “The Obama administration has committed to bring at least 10,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil in fiscal year 2016 by accelerating security screening procedures from 18-24 months to around three months.”
The Obama administration is also working with the United Nations to find shortcuts that would allow different types of visas to be issued to self-proclaimed “refugees” on a much quicker basis than the standard refugee vetting and resettlement route.
The current resettlement vetting process for self-proclaimed refugees begins with an initial screening by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The applications of some who make it through this preliminary UN screen are referred to United States authorities for further consideration and possible resettlement. UNCHR’s role in the front end of the vetting process should be reason enough for alarm because of the UN’s institutional bias against national sovereignty.
The member states of the United Nations did not give up their rights inherent in national sovereignty when they joined the UN. The United Nations Charter states in its preamble that the UN is “based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.” Article 2.7 states: “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit to such matters to settlement under the present Charter….”
Nevertheless, some UN senior officials regularly deride the very notion of national sovereignty, whether it comes to the admission of “refugees” claiming political persecution, or the much larger number of economic migrants looking for better opportunities than are available in their home countries. The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, for example, said last fall that governments must recognize “that sovereignty is an absolute illusion that has to be put behind us. The days of hiding behind borders and fences are long gone.” The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, declared in 2012 that “territorial sovereignty could not be the alpha and omega of migration policies.”
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told reporters this Monday that migration is a consequence of globalization and needs to be accepted as such. In addressing the large, increasing movements of refugees and migrants, Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson said the UN is trying to find solutions that may involve “compromises on sovereignty.”
In a report issued last month to the UN General Assembly, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for “strengthening global governance of migration.”
As for the handling of the huge numbers of self-proclaimed “refugees,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is said to be looking for alternative avenues that are faster than the current refugee “resettlement” vetting process. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi suggested a number of such alternatives last March, at a high-level meeting held in Geneva to discuss “global responsibility sharing through pathways for admission of Syrian refugees."
Among the alternative “pathways” listed by the UNCHR High Commissioner for Refugees were “labour mobility schemes, student visa and scholarships, as well as visa for medical reasons.” He added, “Resettlement needs vastly outstrip the places that have been made available so far... But humanitarian and student visa, job permits and family reunification would represent safe avenues of admission for many other refugees as well.”
The net effect of expanding the grounds for admitting Syrian refugees to include job and student related visas could be to bump American citizens from jobs and scholarships that are given to the “refugees” instead.
Apparently, the Obama administration is onboard with looking for alternatives to the current refugee resettlement system, in order to speed up the entry of Syrian “refugees” into the United States. This should not be surprising considering that President Obama has compared the Syrian refugees favorably to the Pilgrims.
“The United States joins UNHCR in calling for new ways nations, civil society, the private sector, and individuals can together address the global refugee challenge,” the State Department wrote in a Media Note following the Geneva conference. The State Department added that it has “created a program to allow U.S. citizens and permanent residents to file refugee applications for their Syrian family members.”
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Who are such “family members?” Would they include siblings and cousins of fighting age? Do a majority of Americans really want to add more loopholes to the existing visa system, which was already breached by the female jihadist who took part in the San Bernardino massacre after being admitted to the United States on a “fiancé” visa? That is what would happen if the Obama administration gets its way.
As to the illegal immigrants already in the United States or trying to cross the porous border with Mexico, President Obama said in 2014 that the only people “who have the right” to object are “some Native Americans.” He has issued executive orders, now under review by the Supreme Court, which effectively would provide amnesty to as many as 4 million illegal immigrants.
Secretary of State John Kerry told graduating students to prepare for a “borderless world” last week during a commencement speech at Northeastern University. As far as the Obama administration’s policies are concerned, it is virtually here already.
When Barack Obama ran for president, he spoke about “global citizenship.” His support of open borders for “refugees” and illegal immigrants alike – a “borderless world” - make him an enthusiastic partner in the UN’s campaign against national sovereignty.
President Obama is reportedly planning to accelerate the screening process for Syrians claiming refugee status, so that they can be rapidly resettled in communities across the United States.
The Washington Beacon has reported that, according to its sources, “The Obama administration has committed to bring at least 10,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil in fiscal year 2016 by accelerating security screening procedures from 18-24 months to around three months.”
