UN Hush-Hush About 'Refugees' in US - Nations In Region Want Global Body To Force Asylum For Illegals

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi / WND

UNITED NATIONS – A news blackout appears to have descended over a two-day meeting on Central Americans crossing the United States border with Mexico that was attended by representatives of the U.S., Mexico and eight other unidentified countries.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, appears to have no real explanation for why a press release not been issued on a meeting that, according to Spanish-language press, considered classifying the Central Americans crossing the U.S. border with Mexico as “refugees.”

The application of international law would press the United States to grant asylum.

On Monday, Francesca Fontanini, a UNHCR representative in Colombia, explained to WND via email that the issuance of a press release was being delayed until Tuesday afternoon because of “normal internal procedures” in the Nicaraguan government.

When no press release was issued Tuesday, Fontanini recommended WND contact Fernando Protti, a UNHCR representative in Panama.

On July 8, CBS News published an Associated Press story reporting that Protti was among the UNHCR officials hoping the 10-nation meeting last Thursday and Friday in Nicaragua would see a movement toward a regional agreement on treating the Central Americans entering the United States illegally as refugees seeking asylum, “a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.”

Read more at WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/u-n-hush-hush-about-refugees-in-u-s/