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On the recordDecember 12, 2017
My understanding is the New York Compact was a nonbinding agreement done in the U.N. General Assembly in September 2016 that essentially acknowledged the increasing severity of the global migrant and refugee crisis.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine explains the purpose of the New York Compact on Migration.

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