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The US dodged a bullet in forgoing the UN migration pact

By Tiana Lowe Doescher
Published December 11, 2018 9:39pm ET
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The US dodged a bullet in forgoing the UN migration pact
An art installation depicting a migrant is placed at the venue of U.N. Migration Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. | (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel just got back to Berlin from Marrakech, where more than 160 nations agreed to the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Next week, the consenting countries at the General Assembly will formally adopt the compact.

The United States will not be one of them. And thank God for that.

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