Quote taken from one of the EU Threads to prevent thread drift.
Anyone seen this below.
The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Many of you will be aware of this despite the fact that the so-called ‘mainstream media’ have reported nothing about it. I have made speeches about it in the European Parliament and done my best to publicise it.
The BBC World Service had quite a big segment on it. If the BBC is not mainstream, then I don't know what is. You'll have noticed that quite a lot of UK domestic media has been occupied with the shenanigans of Brexit to worry themselves about anything else.
Essentially what the Compact will do is to make illegal immigration legal. It will make migration a ‘human right’ and simplify immigration processes. It will also make it much more difficult to deport illegal migrants, and it will seek to criminalise anyone who speaks out about uncontrolled immigration under ‘hate speech, xenophobia and racism’ legislation.
Illegal immigration cannot become legal. Those two things are mutually exclusive. Semantics aside, that statement is also factually inaccurate. This from the actual document (page 4):
The Global Compact recognizes that respect for the rule of law, due process and access to justice are fundamental to all aspects of migration governance. This means that the State, public and private institutions and entities, as well as persons themselves are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international law.
My emphasis.
People already have the freedom to move from one country to another (provided they obey the migration rules of a state) under existing Human Rights.
Simplification of the immigration process is not a bad thing.
This is not the case. Simply, the report condemns blind prejudice (such as "all migrants are rapists"). It does not prevent normal political discourse on migration.
Her Majesty’s Government signed up to the UN Compact in Marrakesh on Sunday 9th December.
Correct.
About 150 countries signed up to it, most of these are poor, developing countries with increasing populations which they cannot support and which they are happy to see migrate.
The majority of countries within the UN are poor and developing. Furthermore, the majority of developed states have signed up to it.
A number of countries have refused to sign up: the USA, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland.
The UN Compact is not a law as such but what is known as customary international law – e.g. signatories will be expected to apply it.
Correct.
Despite some of its member states not signing up, the European Union signed up in its own right, as it has the right to do under the Lisbon Treaty.
The Member States will not be protected by not-signing because if the EU adopts the Compact’s provisions in the form of Directives and Regulations, and if they are approved by the European Parliament, then the Member States will have to transpose them into national law.
Britain has already committed to adopting the Compact, and if we remain in the EU then we will have no choice anyway when the Directives or Regulations come down the line.
There's so much "if" here.
If a motion is put forward to the EU Parliament then the EU
may adopt it as binding law which we will have to also do
if we are in the EU. Also note the shift from "if" to "when" in the space of a paragraph.
Only UKIP is defending Britain in these vital areas where we are being sold down the river by our Government and political class.
Yours sincerely,
Gerard Batten MEP
UKIP Leader
General point:
There is a failure to realise that asylum seekers are allowed to apply for asylum
no matter how they enter the country. There is a refusal to distinguish between asylum seekers and other migrants.
