The United Nations rights chief warned Wednesday that a new US border enforcement plan risks undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law.
“The right to seek asylum is a human right, no matter a person’s origin, immigration status, nor how they arrived at an international border,” Volker Turk said in a statement, warning the new measures “appear to be at variance with the prohibition of collective expulsion and the principle of non-refoulement.”
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