U.S. Absence Leaves Global Migration Data Incomplete

The United States rejected participation in the UN's International Migration Review Forum, extending a decade of non-engagement with the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration adopted by 192 nations. The absence fractures the UN's data-sharing framework—consequential because the U.S. hosts one of the world's largest migration flows. Without American data, global trend analysis and regional assessments operate with incomplete visibility into migration patterns that shape policy across multiple continents.