Developing the Global Compact on Migration 2016, para. 13
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It is paradoxical that, in the name of securing their borders, some States have actually lost control of them owing to the fact that flexible and opportunistic smuggling rings are often ahead of the game. Prohibitive and repressive policies, without regular migration channels for asylum seekers and much-needed low-wage migrants, only entrench smuggling operations and underground labour markets, resulting in more deaths at sea and more human rights violations.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants