AP: United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees (What ever happened to that very fine film genre prominent in the 1950s showing breathtaking panoramic scenes of flying saucers crashing into the United Nations?)

UN PUSHES FOR MIGRANTS TO BE CALLED REFUGEES

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum. . . .

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