 [Al Ahram] The caravan of migrants colonists making its way through Mexico is "kind of a normal event" and the United States ought not to reinforce its border against them, a United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
official said on Friday.
With days to go before mid-term elections, US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has called the surge of people an "invasion", ordered troops to the border and suggested any rock-throwing by migrants colonists should be treated as equivalent to gunfire.
Joel Millman, a front man for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), told a UN briefing in Geneva there had been similar caravans for many years, and the group was still hundreds of miles away from the United States.
"So (using) words like ’invasion’ and things like that is assuming that this is a new phenomenon which is a drastic emergency, and I don’t think that anyone at IOM would share that view," he said.
"This is kind of a normal event."
Militarised frontiers tended not to deter people from crossing borders, he added. Instead, they increased the profits of criminal people-smuggling gangs and led to deaths among migrants colonists.
"Militarising the border is not something we are ever in favor of," he said.
The migrant group has become a major issue in campaigning for the elections on Nov. 6, when Republicans will seek to maintain control of both congressional chambers.
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