The UN’s Migration Body Rejects Trump’s Pick to Be Its Leader
The move is a rare repudiation of U.S. leadership of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Jun 29, 2018
3 minutes
Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET
Since President Trump took office in January 2017, the U.S. has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement and the non-binding Global Compact on Migration. The president himself has criticized refugees, blamed migration for Europe’s ills, instituted a travel ban that targets the citizens of five predominantly Muslim countries, and adopted a tough policy on migrants along the U.S. border with Mexico.
The global community appears to have noticed. On Friday, it issued something of a response: Ken Isaacs, Trump’s candidate to lead the International Organization
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