Geneva: UN rights chief Volker Turk advised the United States to reevaluate its migration practices for the football World Cup, after fans, a leading referee and group authorities discovered themselves disallowed from the competition.
“I really hope that there’s a massive re-think of how immigration enforcement is impacting human rights and human dignity, and that especially for the World Cup, there is a re-think of the policies that we have unfortunately seen prevailing, especially in the US,” he informed press reporters.
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