Final Push for World Government

U.N. Dictates U.S. Border Enforcement

May 13, 2010

OneNewsNow - An immigration enforcement activist isn't surprised that "experts" at the United Nations are attacking Arizona's tough border-enforcement legislation, all the while ignoring the way countries like Mexico treat their illegal aliens.

The Associated Press reports that six U.N. human rights experts claim the tough new measures contained in S.B. 1070 in Arizona could violate international standards that are binding in the U.S. The basic human-rights regulations, signed by the U.S. and many other nations, include a rule against discrimination and one regarding the terms under which someone can be detained. (See earlier article)

The experts claim the law -- which allows police to question anyone they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally -- could result in potential discrimination against Mexicans, indigenous peoples, and other minorities. The law, they said, indicates a "disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants."

Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) says he is not surprised that the U.N. would issue such a complaint.

"One of the people who was involved in this is Jorge Bustamente, who has been a critic of every enforcement policy instituted in the United States," he notes. "So I think there's obviously some political motivation here." Bustamente is the U.N.'s special rapporteur on the human rights of immigrants.

But Mehlman says the U.N. apparently has no problem with the brutal way Mexico treats those who cross its border illegally from Central America.

"We know that the United Nations has a record of selective condemnations," says the FAIR spokesman. "They seem to find fault with everything that some countries do and turn a blind eye to some gross human-rights violations from other nations."

Mehlman says the U.N. does not have the right to dictate to the United States or any other sovereign nation who can enter that nation's territory.