President Trump on Tuesday argued the United Nations is contributing to issues involving migration around the world, calling on allies to crack down on the issue in their own countries.
“Not only is the United Nations not solving the problems it should, too often it’s actually creating new problems for us to solve,” Trump said in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. “The best example is the number one political issue of our time: the crisis of uncontrolled migration.”
Trump encouraged allies to take action to limit the number of migrants entering their countries and highlighted in his speech that his administration has cracked down on border crossings into the U.S. along with mass deportation policies in his second-term.
“America belongs to Americans, and I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well,” the president said.
Trump also warned other members of the United Nations that their countries were “going to hell” because of unchecked migration.
“It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders,” Trump said. “You have to end it now. I can tell you. I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”
To close his remarks, he said that “immigration and the high cost of so-called green renewable energy is destroying a large part of the free world.”
He warned other nations that they need “strong borders,” as well as traditional energy, to be “great again.”
