I have kept my own counsel on this issue for one main reason, I wanted to look at the source documents and make up my own mind about this issue and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. The conclusion that I have come to is similar to that of President Trump and other nationalist leaders, which is that it is a bad thing.
I have to admit that are some good features to this Compact, most notably the call for greater interdiction of people traffickers, along with policies to promote re-entry into their societies of refugees who have returned to their own countries. Although there is in this document also a recognition in it that nations have a right to manage their own borders, the effect of this Compact would make it more difficult for nations to police these borders. Especially worrying for the citizens of countries that are migrant destination nations is the whole idea of migration being a human right, it isn’t. I have no more a natural right to walk into my neighbour’s house, eat their food and sleep in their bed without permission than a migrant into a country does.
As I said, the interdiction of people traffickers and making life better for refugee returnees are the positive bits, the rest of it seems to have been written by those with an inherent dislike of the idea of nations and borders. It will eventually compel nations to accept more migrants, treat with respect the cultures of the people migrating, open up more loopholes for illegal migrants to pose as fake children and forbid nations from detaining illegals except as a last resort. It will compel nations to do this as although this document has no legal binding itself, it will be referred to by those involved in International Law cases and will be treated as de facto as such, even though it is not law .
On balance, this Compact is a bad document that is only going to have destructive and disruptive effects on the nations that are the primary destination of migrants. The provisions for bilateral and multilateral regional management of migration issues will rob individual nations of the ability to properly police their own borders. We would find for example Britain’s ability to stop illegals migrating from the Republic of Ireland to the UK much impeded because of bilateral and regional agreements regarding migration. This Compact would also be extremely expensive and disruptive for the citizens and governments of the destination nations. The document calls for a lot of welfare and education system investment in order to fund and support migrants and could be read as removing a government’s ability to deny services to illegals or people whose status is not yet determined.
The UK government under Theresa May looks like it is going to cave into UN pressure and sign this document in less than two weeks time. They will cave in to these demands just as they’ve caved in to many other left causes and protest groups since her government has been in power.
I believe that this document, which has been long in its gestation under the public radar since at least 2007, needs to be protested and protested effectively. I would strongly counsel that Britons sign the petition for the government to refuse to sign this pernicious and slippery Compact. You can find the petition via the link below:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232698
Further information on this story can be found on Breitbart
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/01/uk-petition-reject-un-migration-compact-breaks-40000/
Original UN document on the Global Migration Compact
