by Murray Allatt
In 2015 Angela Merkel invited the world, the third world, into Europe. The influx of over one million (by now surely over two million) “migrants,” mostly undocumented, has largely been comprised of Syrians fleeing the civil war. It also included people from many other countries from the Middle East–the vast majority being single males of military age.
Subsequently tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, from Africa have made a perilous journey to southern Europe via Italy, France and Spain. Certainly, many thousands have perished by drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. Again, the vast majority of these “migrants” have been undocumented and their “migration” unregulated.
The flow of “migrants,” involving mass migration that is, has all been one way for many years–from the third world to the first. But Merkel’s decision in 2015 to ‘invite one, invite all,’ of those fleeing war, economic hardship–looking for a better life–seems to have unleashed a near unstoppable avalanche of humanity on Europe.
Meanwhile a hemisphere away the U.S. border with Mexico has for decades seen uninvited, largely undocumented intruders (sorry, “migrants”) literally scale the wall, hop the fence or swim the river. For years it was claimed that there were “just” 11 million illegal, undocumented immigrants in the USA. Recently a study revealed (surprise) that figure was actually 22 million! The reality is, however, that the real figure could be double that again.
Australia has also had to deal with the arrival of uninvited “immigrants” for decades, usually by boat. There is some advantage to an island continent. From the 1990s to 2007 a wave of boat people was successfully staunched, if not turned back, by a government led by PM John Howard who operated on the basis that Australia would determine who came into the country. There would be no “self selection.” At the time of the 2008 Federal election there were just four illegal immigrants–so called asylum seekers–in detention.
In 2008 a change of government, elected on the promise that the immigration and “refugee” policies would remain unchanged, promptly changed those policies, setting off five years of illegal boat arrivals. 55,000 uninvited, mainly Islamic “economic refugees,” who, rather than being poverty stricken in fear of their lives from home governments, had left their home country legally via the airport, flown to Malaysia or Indonesia direct, and miraculously had access to tens of thousands of dollars to pay people smugglers in Indonesia for a perilous boat trip to Australian territory, principally Christmas Island.
That over 1200 (quite possible many more) drowned making the attempt was to those who changed the policy, and those who encouraged these “migrants’” unlawful actions, of minimal consequence–collateral damage. Only with another change of government in 2013 was this trade in humanity again stopped. But stopped with policies of “turn back the boats” and “offshore detention”–mandatory, with the rider that no one who arrived illegally by boat would ever be allowed to settle in Australia.
So the movement of third world populations to the West–be it Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia–uninvited, illegally, by any available means is nothing new. What was new in 2015 was Merkel’s invitation. The resulting impact on Europe has been predictable and devastating. Particularly devastating for the thousands of European women subjected to the deplorable actions of foreign males from cultures that treat women as chattels and western women as fair game for rape and sexual assault.
Reports from Germany and Sweden (of all places) make it clear that, just as the 1200 plus who drowned between Indonesia and Australia were to the political promoters of this worldwide mass migration of the third world to the first, were merely collateral damage and an acceptable loss, so too the European rape and assault victims. Not surprisingly, though it seems it should have happened already, Merkel is on the way out, partly at least as a result of her 2015 “invitation” and subsequent actions.
Enter the UN.
In September 2016, 193 UN Member States adopted the so called “New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.” The resulting “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” plus the “Global Compact for Refugees” is expected to be agreed and adopted among willing States in Morocco at an intergovernmental conference on 10-11 December, 2018. (Why is it so many UN conferences are held in exotic locales with 6 star accommodations?)
The “compact” on migration is a 34 page agreed document of ponderous and repetitious verbosity, which on its face appears reasonable. It has sections on Common Understanding, Shared Responsibilities, Unity of Purpose: “This Global Compact recognizes that safe, orderly and regular migration works for all when it takes place in a well-informed, planned and consensual manner. Migration should never be an act of desperation…”
The guiding principles of the Compact are “People Centered,” “International Cooperation,” “National Sovereignty,” “Rule of Law and Due Process,” Sustainable Development,” “Human Rights,” “Gender Responsive,” “Child Sensitive,” “Whole of Government Approach,” “Whole of Society Approach.”
There are then 23 Objectives Listed for “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.” Then against each “Objective” is listed in quite some detail the “commitments” of the adopting governments. And these commitments to the 23 Objectives fill out pages 6 to 31 of the document. That’s a lot of commitment.
Curiously, one of the guiding principles is “National Sovereignty” wherein it is stated, “The Global Compact reaffirms the sovereign right of States to determine their national migration policy and their prerogative to govern migration within their jurisdiction, in conformity with international law. Within their sovereign jurisdiction, States may distinguish between regular and irregular migration status, including as they determine their legislative and policy measures for the implementation of the Global Compact, taking into account different national realities, policies, priorities and requirements for entry, residence and work, in accordance with international law.”
Why then are countries withdrawing their support for this compact stating that they will not give up their sovereign right to determine their own migration policy to the UN? The United States repudiated the agreement in December 2017. Recently Hungary, Poland and now Estonia have stated they will not be bound to the agreement. Some are urging Israel to withdraw from anything to do with this Compact. In Australia, the Border Protection Minister, Peter Dutton has stated Australia will not sign on to the Compact in present form.
Why this backing away when “The Global Compact reaffirms the sovereign right of States to determine their national migration policy?” On 21 November, 2018 the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, confirmed that Australia would not sign up to the Compact on Migration. He stated that the Compact on Migration would unduly impact Australia’s border protection. Curiously he also stated Australia would sign up to the Compact on Refugees, stating the UN could not dictate the number or source of refugees by that Compact. We will see.
The fact is, this “Compact on Migration” places all of the obligation on Western nations signatories to conform to its agreed principles, objectives and “commitments.” Does anyone expect Burkina Faso, Senegal, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria or any of the 56 Muslim country UN members to similarly comply with this “Compact on Migration?” Does anyone expect the 54 African countries (some of which are also Muslim countries) to comply? How about Central and South American countries? How about Asian countries?
Which of the UN member countries who sign up to this “Compact on Migration” would be expected to comply, indeed forced to comply by all the other signatories as well as their own homegrown social justice warriors? Why, that would be the Western nations who would be expected to comply with every jot and tittle of the Compact.
Who would be beaten over the head by other UN member signatories for non-compliance? The Western nations. It could be expected to operate much like the United Nations Human Rights Council, don’t you think? We know how the UNHRC operates. Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and other nations of impeccable human rights credentials lecturing the US, Australia, and other western nations on human rights!
When you read through the “principles,” “objectives” and “commitments” to achieve those objectives it is obvious that the Western nations already substantially, and have for decades, operate in the manner described. It is the other 140 or so non-western countries that are challenged by lack of an orderly, regularized migration system. This compact will do nothing to alter that fact. It will however work to impede the sovereign rights of western nations to control migration to their countries from areas of uncontrolled and unregulated migration. That is, self selecting migrants looking for better opportunities but arriving uninvited and unvetted. This compact has the effect of granting illegal migration the same status as legal migration.
The most powerful weapon the Australian government has had the use of to deter illegal boat arrivals (and stop drownings) has been the policy of off shore mandatory detention (as well as boat turn backs). Why would Peter Dutton, Minister for Border Protection, state that Australia would not sign on to the Compact in current form and the Prime Minister Morrison then state Australia would not sign on due to the fact to do so would weaken Australia’s border protection? Here is one good reason:
Objective 13: Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives.
So far as illegal boat arrivals are concerned in Australian migration policy, mandatory migration detention is a measure of first resort. It has worked to stop the boats and the drownings. Remove that deterrence, as will inevitably be the case when a change to the Australian government occurs (polling shows probably by May 2019), and the illegal boat arrivals and the drownings will resume.
Migration, legal and illegal, has been ongoing for decades. Western nations have had in place appropriate immigration rules for their particular country needs during all that time for legal migration. And for that matter illegal migration. Why then in 2016 is a process set off to put the UN’s imprimatur on migration–ostensibly legal, orderly migration?
The real driver for this Migration Compact was not legal migration at all but illegal migration. It was the illegal (although invited by Merkel) migration of millions of Middle Eastern and African “economic” migrants to Europe, for the most part, from 2015 and to the present. This UN process was set off with the rebellion of some European countries who have refused to participate in Merkel’s madness. The UN, through this Migration Compact is trying to sign up every country, especially western countries, including those rebel European countries, principally to ensure that Western nations can be coerced to take in more of the third world.
The population of Africa is exploding. They are going to go to Europe come what may. The culture and lifestyle of Europe is going to change. By many reports it has already changed. The same goes for other areas, notably the US. Australia has not escaped. And this Compact is all about making that transition for those western countries, from first world societies to repositories for third world misery, as smooth as possible, ensuring the receiving population is suitably subdued. Just take these few “Objectives”:
(16) Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion
(17) Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
(18) Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences
(19) Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
(20) Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
(21) Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
(22) Establish mechanisms for the portability of social security entitlements and earned benefits
All motherhood statements which sound so very reasonable. But they are ignoring the societal and cultural dislocation and strains, the imposition on existing infrastructure–hospitals, schools, roads, water and food supplies and everything else that makes a first world country first world–and expecting the existing population to pay for the new comers as well as the additional costs their presence requires to maintain services and living standards. And remember, this “Compact for Migration” does not differentiate between legal and illegal migration. All are to be treated the same.
Perhaps it was always going to end this way, but it seems clear enough that this latest UN power grab owes at least something to Angela Merkel’s 2015 invitation to the third world. Sensible governments will steer well clear of involvement with the UN Compact on Migration, as just another in a long line of international agreements that rob countries of sovereignty and tie the world in the knots of globalism.
Now, does this flood of third world populations into the first world tie in with Bible prophecy? The Bible pronounces curses on the nation of Israel (and any nation) for failure to follow God’s law. Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68. “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower” (Deut. 28:43).
What is happening in the world today would make a lot more sense to someone who knew the identity of Great Britain and her Anglosphere of offpspring––Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA––as well as the identity of the nations of North Western Europe. Was the latterday invasion of these nations by foreigners foretold long ago? It’s a fascinating story that can be read in “Europe and America in Prophecy” by Garner Ted Armstrong.
