UN urges controlled migration after Trump travel ban
NEW YORK - The United Nations on Monday called for migration to be “managed properly” and carried out in a way that is beneficial to the involved countries after President Donald Trump imposed a new travel ban on citizens of 12 nations.
Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to activate a travel ban, which took effect Monday, on nationals of Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Haiti, Sudan, and Yemen, with the ban stemming from a flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest in Boulder, Colorado.
“A lot of countries have put up more barriers recently. We have always said that migration is something that needs to be managed, and managed properly, in a way that respects the human dignity and the rights of those people who are moving, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to find a better life,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told Rudaw.
He added that migration must be made in a mutually beneficial manner, both to the countries of origin and destination, something he called “doable.”
“When it is not managed properly, it leads to situations where things are put in the hands of criminal gangs,” Dujarric stressed.
The Boulder attack was blamed on an Egyptian man illegally staying in the US, but Trump’s travel ban did not include Egypt.
During his first term in office, Trump introduced a similar ban mainly on Muslim-majority countries.
Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to activate a travel ban, which took effect Monday, on nationals of Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Haiti, Sudan, and Yemen, with the ban stemming from a flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest in Boulder, Colorado.
“A lot of countries have put up more barriers recently. We have always said that migration is something that needs to be managed, and managed properly, in a way that respects the human dignity and the rights of those people who are moving, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to find a better life,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told Rudaw.
He added that migration must be made in a mutually beneficial manner, both to the countries of origin and destination, something he called “doable.”
“When it is not managed properly, it leads to situations where things are put in the hands of criminal gangs,” Dujarric stressed.
The Boulder attack was blamed on an Egyptian man illegally staying in the US, but Trump’s travel ban did not include Egypt.
During his first term in office, Trump introduced a similar ban mainly on Muslim-majority countries.