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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 20 2018, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-will-change dept.

US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."

Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."

Also at NPR and Bloomberg.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:34PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:34PM (#695772)

    1. Most of the kids weren't "ripped from their parents". Many are unrelated being used as human shields and for trafficking. Once we established the rule that having a child in toe would let you skip detention the invaders adapted to that change in the rules.

    2. They can be reunited any time they want. Simply waive their right to stay while awaiting a hearing and I'm pretty sure ICE would be more than happy to reunite them all in their home country. The family that is deported together stays together.

    3. Who really cares anyway? Anyone else breaks the law they kinda expect to be separated from their children. We don't imprison children. Some of the detention facilities are getting overloaded but the idea still holds that we imprison the criminal parent but merely detain minor children because we don't have anything else we can do with them at the moment. They have no relatives we can release them to here and the courts won't let us send them back. Or do you now want to stuff children in prison with their parents as a new general rule? Otherwise admit your actual goal is to return to "catch and release" and that you are an open borders globalist who should not be considered when Americans deliberate their immigration laws and the enforcement thereof.

    4. But really, I should not have even bothered posting anything but the derisive dismissal you deserve:

    WOMP! WOMP!

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:16PM (#695800)

    You keep repeating that mantra but it doesn't make it so. You, jmorris, are no George Constanta.