181 Nations Voted to Help Refugees. Only Hungary and US Voted “No.”
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Central American migrants who travelled in a caravan to the Mexico-US border gather at the entrance of a temporary shelter in downtown Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on December 17, 2018.GUILLERMO ARIAS / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Andrea Germanos
The United States was a near global outlier Monday at the United Nations General Assembly in rejecting a framework to bolster international cooperation on refugees.
Only Hungary — headed by far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose administration has been accused of carrying out “a full-frontal assault on migrants and refugees” — joined the US in voting “no” on the Global Compact on Refugees (pdf). One hundred eighty-one nations voted to approve it, while three — the Dominican Republic, Eritrea, and Libya — abst...