NEW YORK - The United Nations on Monday called for migration to be “managed properly” and carried out in a way that is beneficial to the involved countries after President Donald Trump imposed a new travel ban on citizens of 12 nations.
Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to activate a travel ban, which took effect Monday, on nationals of Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Haiti, Sudan, and Yemen, with the ban stemming from a flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest in Boulder, Colorado.
“A lot of countries have put up more barriers recently. We have always said that migration is something that needs to be managed, and managed properly, in a way that respects the human dignity and the rights of those people who are moving, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to find a better life,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told Rudaw.