First, the UN refugee agency is an unelected, unaccountable globalist bureaucracy. UNHCR’s authority under the 1967 Protocol is to collect information on the condition of refugees and on laws, regulations and decrees relating to refugees, to issue reports and supervise the application of the provisions of the Protocol. These are administrative, not judicial, functions. UNHCR has no business telling sovereign member states of the United Nations what it “expects” their laws, regulations and decrees to say in order to be consistent with UNHCR’s interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Protocol. If there is to be any interpretation of the original Convention or the subsequent Protocol by any international body, that function has been assigned by the Convention and the Protocol to the International Court of Justice.
Secondly, there is no language in the 1967 Protocol that would preclude a country’s sovereign right to establish official ports of entry as the only locations where asylum seekers are permitted to enter the country legally in order to apply for asylum. UNHCR is effectively adding its own interpretive gloss that contradicts Article 2 of the original 1951 Refugee Convention. Article 2 states that “Every refugee has duties to the country in which he finds himself, which require in particular that he conform to its laws and regulations as well as to measures taken for the maintenance of public order.” The 1967 Protocol keeps this Article 2 of the Convention in effect. It is the asylum-seekers outside of their own home countries who must conform to the laws and regulation and measures for the maintenance of public order of their destination countries, not the other way around.
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Secondly, there is no language in the 1967 Protocol that would preclude a country’s sovereign right to establish official ports of entry as the only locations where asylum seekers are permitted to enter the country legally in order to apply for asylum. UNHCR is effectively adding its own interpretive gloss that contradicts Article 2 of the original 1951 Refugee Convention. Article 2 states that “Every refugee has duties to the country in which he finds himself, which require in particular that he conform to its laws and regulations as well as to measures taken for the maintenance of public order.” The 1967 Protocol keeps this Article 2 of the Convention in effect. It is the asylum-seekers outside of their own home countries who must conform to the laws and regulation and measures for the maintenance of public order of their destination countries, not the other way around.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/un-refugee-agency-tries-to-step-on-u.s.-national-sovereignty