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(NewsNation) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called connected the United Nations Human Rights Council to analyse alleged "violations of quality rights" nether the Trump medication during virtual remarks delivered Friday from Geneva, Switzerland.
"This medication seeks to evade scrutiny for its violations of quality rights — conscionable arsenic it has sought to evade accountability for its actions successful cities similar mine," Johnson said.
He urged the U.N. to clasp the U.S. to the aforesaid standards it applies to different nations.
"We cannot bash this alone," Johnson said. "That is wherefore I telephone connected this Council to clasp the national authorities of the United States to the aforesaid standards of accountability you use elsewhere successful the world. No state should beryllium supra planetary law. Human rights are cosmopolitan — or they are meaningless."
Johnson besides criticized federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, saying they've deepened nutrient insecurity for residents.
"As idiosyncratic with first-hand experience, I tin archer you however humiliating it is erstwhile you unfastened the refrigerator and you person thing to eat," helium said. "In the wealthiest state successful the world, determination is nary crushed wherefore our national authorities should let hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans to spell hungry."
The politician further condemned federal migration enforcement practices, accusing agents of convulsive raids that person separated families and detained children.
"In Chicago, we unrecorded with the consequences of that motivation nonaccomplishment each day. Families torn isolated by migration raids. Raids that person targeted daycare teachers, ride-share drivers, and edifice cooks. Honest, hardworking, law-abiding radical who lend to the psyche of Chicago, who virtually marque our metropolis run."
Johnson reaffirmed Chicago's committedness to protecting immigrants done the city's Welcoming City Ordinance and community-based "Rapid Response" networks.
He closed his remarks by inviting U.N. leaders to sojourn Chicago and witnesser the interaction firsthand.
