US orders embassies in Western Hemisphere to report on human rights abuses caused by mass migration

The State Department ordered United States embassies in the Western Hemisphere on Tuesday to file reports on alleged human rights abuses in their respective countries that can be tied to mass migration.The Trump administration has previously condemned countries like China, Iran, South Africa, Sudan and Venezuela for alleged human rights abuses, and even withdrew the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council earlier this year.
The department said mass migration has “wrought havoc on America before President [Donald] Trump secured the border,” highlighting its contribution to ongoing issues in the United States, like the opioid epidemic.
“Millions of migrants and waves of deadly drugs have flowed to America’s borders on transnational routes operated by terror organizations,” the department said in a thread on X. “Mass migration has endangered American citizens, threatened the economic security of American workers, and strained America’s asylum system.
“The narco-terror organizations that facilitate mass migration routinely engage in child trafficking, forced labor, sexual assault, and other heinous human rights abuses that threaten the citizens of nations throughout the Western Hemisphere and undermine the rule of law,” it continued. 
The department directed embassies in countries in Europe and Latin America to report crimes caused by the surge in mass migration and urged countries to combat human rights abuses. 
“The United States urges governments to protect their borders and defend their citizens against the human rights abuses caused by mass migration,” the department said in the thread. “The United States stands ready to work alongside nations across the Western Hemisphere to end the global crisis of mass migration.”
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

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