President Trump reverses Obama's policy on international immigration

The United States will not join an international agreement on migration that needs to be adopted in 2018, the country's mission to the United Nations said.

Immigrants take the oath of allegiance to the US during their naturalization ceremony. Photo: Internet

"Today, the US Permanent Mission to the United Nations informed the Secretary-General that the United States is suspending its participation in the global compact on migration," the Permanent Mission announced.

In 2016, the Obama administration decided to join the New York Migration Proclamation.

According to this document, by 2018 a global document on responding to the migration of refugees and immigrants must be adopted.

"Many provisions of the New York Declaration do not correspond to US policy in the field of immigration and refugees, as well as the principles of the Trump administration," - the US representative explained.

According to US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, "no country has done as much as America".

"However, our decisions in the field of migration policy should be made only by Americans and no one else," - the statement noted.

According to Sputnik