Immigration Expert: U.S. Should End ‘Total Reliance’ on U.N. for Refugee Vetting
(CNSNews.com) – A researcher with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) said that while it is not widely reported when debating the vetting of refugees entering the United States, it’s the United Nations that controls most of the vetting process – a practice of “total reliance” on that global organization that should end.
“The United States needs to revise its total reliance on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for refugee determination, assistance, and resettlement referrals,” Nayla Rush, senior researcher at CIS, said in a report [1] on the agency.
“The United States chooses the refugees it resettles solely based on referrals from UNHCR,” Rush said. “It entrusts this UN agency staff with the entire selection and pre-screening process of refugees eligible for resettlement in the United States.”
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