FILE -Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks during a joint statement with President Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Filippo Grandi, the head of the U.N. refugee agency says he understands that the Biden administration enacted new restrictions on asylum-seekers entering the United States, but cautioned that some aspects of the executive order may violate refugee protection required in international law.
The refugee agency noted that the total count was roughly equivalent to the entire population of Japan. He lamented how crises in Africa had been largely overlooked, in particular in Sudan, where some 10.8 million were displaced at the end of last year, after conflict erupted between forces loyal to rival generals in April last year.
The United States, meanwhile, has faced the “most complex challenge” when it comes to refugees of any country in the developed world, Grandi said — alluding to an influx across the U.S.-Mexican border.on migrants seeking asylum at the border — seen by some as a political maneuver ahead of national elections in November — as a possible violation of international humanitarian law.
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