U.S. Quits Migration Pact, Saying It Infringes on Sovereignty<br />Kevin Appleby, the international migration policy director at the Scalabrini International Migration Network, a New York-based advocacy group, said the Trump administration<br />was "more interested in appeasing a small minority of Americans than working with the world on a pressing global issue." Somini Sengupta contributed reporting.<br />The administration’s decision to renounce the talks on the agreement, the Global Compact on Migration, was announced in a statement Saturday night<br />by the United States Mission to the United Nations, surprising migrant-rights advocates who called it shortsighted and counterproductive.<br />3, 2017<br />The Trump administration has quit participating in talks on a proposed United Nations agreement to improve ways of handling global flows of migrants<br />and refugees, describing it as a subversion of American sovereignty.<br />The Trump White House also has moved to distance itself from some key United Nations agencies over political issues, including Unesco — the United Nations Educational, Scientific<br />and Cultural Organization — and the United Nations Population Fund, the world’s leading provider of family-planning services.
