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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva (wanted to build a wall in the Alps)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/ken-isaacs-migration-united-nations/index.html
(CNN)The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm since 1951.
Isaacs once wrote on Twitter that Austria and Switzerland should consider building a wall in the Alps to keep refugees out.
"#immigration #wall #Austria #Switzerland consider#buildingawall in #Alps to control their borders from refugees," Isaacs tweeted.
The tweet is one of more than 140 previously unreported tweets from before Isaacs was nominated reviewed by CNN's KFile.
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Trump's pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva (wanted to build a wall in the Alps) (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jun 2018
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ck4829
(35,077 posts)1. Thank God.
Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)2. This isn't
The Onion or Borowitz?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)3. The idea of a wall in the Alps is so ridiculous, we need to invent a new word beyond "idiotic".
A wall.
Built in steep, icy mountains.
Where also regular people happen to live and which are a prime tourist spot for skiing in Winter and hiking in Summer.
A wall that ignores that the Alps actually range from France to Slovenia.
A wall that wouldn't help either because those refugees aren't coming across the Alps. They come around the Alps.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)4. How about "Ken-Isaacsian"?
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)5. A wall? In the Alps?
And he works for Franklin Graham (Samaritan's Purse).