Immigration 4 – Comprehensive treatment needed

It seems counterproductive to have nations handle immigration on a piecemeal basis when the basic problems and challenges are the same whether we talk about Europe, North America or certain parts of Asia. It would appear that the United Nations should be the ideal body to spearhead a comprehensive program capable of defining a general and sustainable set of directions that would help all member nations, and create a continuum in terms of policies, targets and appropriate strategies and tactics. At the moment, each nation that is faced with a particular situation related to immigration devises its own plan and frequently has to resort to re-inventing the wheel and seeking isolated solutions that are meant to address specific symptoms rather than the root causes of the situation.