*TSIH* Snopes-Did the UN Declare War on America and Order Trump to Let the Migrant Caravan In?
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/un-order-migrant-caravan/
Junk news and mendacious memes falsely reported the United Nations had declared "war" on the United States.
The United Nations has not declared “war” on the United States over President Donald Trump’s vow to refuse entry to a Central American migrant caravan, but you wouldn’t know it from hyperbolic memes and stories circulating on social media.
On 29 October 2018, the right-wing Breitbart.com website inaccurately reported that the U.N. Refugee Agency had “commanded” President Trump “to accept the caravan of refugees, which some estimates now put at 10,000-strong.” It took less than a day for that notion to morph into a meme and an article on junk news site PuppetStringNews.com falsely reporting that the U.N. had declared war on the U.S. (a country which is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council):
To Arms, To Arms
Both Breitbart and Puppet Strings news were referencing comments made by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHR) spokesman Andrej Mahecic to the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America. Mahecic did not issue “commands,” but rather he stated that in the U.N.’s view, Mexico and the United States should provide migrants with access to their respective asylum processes in accordance with international law:
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