UN Backpedals on Child Detention Claims
No immigration claim is too unbelievable if it makes Trump look bad
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 23, 2019
Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that "[a]n independent UN expert has apologized for misspeaking during a news conference in Geneva this week, correcting his claim that more than 100,000 children were being held in migration-related US detention." The whole kerfuffle simply underscores the fact that no international immigration claim is too unbelievable if it makes the Trump administration — and by extension in the international community, the United States — look bad.
According to AFP:
Manfred Nowak, who led the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, told journalists Monday during a presentation of the report that the US had among the highest number of children in migration-related detention.
"In terms of overall, and now I am talking about children with their parents or unaccompanied children or minors, the United States is one of the countries with the highest numbers. We have more than 100,000 children in migration-related detention in the United States of America," he said.
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