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President Donald Trump of the United States (US) has alleged that the United Nations (UN) was actively undermining Western sovereignty by financially supporting migrants into the US.
He noted this at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where he critiqued the UN’s role in global migration, accusing the organisation of exacerbating rather than resolving international crises.
Trump framed the issue as a matter of national survival and sovereignty. “The UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them, and not finance them,” he stated. “In the US, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime, and deplete our social safety net.”
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“In 2024, the UN budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the US. Think of that” he said. The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the US, and then we have to get them out.”
In a speech marked by sharp rhetoric and nationalist undertones, Trump declared that the UN had “not only failed to solve the problems it should, but too often, it’s actually creating new ones.”
He singled out migration as the most pressing political issue of the era, describing it as uncontrolled and warning that countries are being ruined.
He further asserted that the UN had provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to migrants en route to the US southern border, describing the situation as an assault on national borders. “Millions of people came through that southern border…25 million altogether over the four years of the Biden administration.”
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Trump noted that the influx had now ceased under his leadership. “Totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through,” he said.
Calling on other nations to follow suit, Trump urged world leaders to prioritise their own citizens. “We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people,” he said. “I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defence of their citizens as well.”
Trump concluded with a stark warning, “You’re destroying your countries. They’re being destroyed.”
