By Owei Lakemfa
FIVE thousand, five hundred angry marchers tramped through the streets of Brussels on Sunday protesting against the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Their claims include that the Pact would encourage migration and criminality. They also claim that the Pact blurs the distinction between legal and illegal migration. For them, it is time Belgium shuts its borders against migration of any kind.
US border agents pushed Migrants back with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The protests are targeted at the estimated 258 million migrants worldwide which include 68 million refugees and 3 million asylum seekers. There was a counter protest by about 1,000 people who believe the larger group are fascists and racists who refuse to recognise the fact that migration is natural to humanity. They are quite right because all of us in Africa have a history of…
