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FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 29, 2018, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, speaks as U.N. Special Coordinator for Migration and Home Affairs Filippo Grandi looks on during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Brown’s administration is at odds with the U.N.’s migration body, which on Monday, Feb. 7, 2019, accused U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres of “distorting the facts” in a major new report into the origins of the migrant crisis. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Brown’s administration is at odds with the U.N.’s migration body, which on Monday accused U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres of “distorting the facts” in a major new report into the origins of the migrant crisis.
The U.N.’s refugee agency says in its report that a secret deal was cooked up between Brown and European leaders in 2014 that allowed more than 1.7 million people to enter the U.S. with fraudulent documents.
The report also says the top U.S. diplomat in the world was kept in the dark about the terms of the deal.
Brown was not available to be interviewed Monday.
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He is the second California governor to confront the migration issue. Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1974 was the first to call for the U.N. to help resettle 1 million refugees.
On Monday, California’s attorney general said it didn’t need the U.N.’s help.
“The federal government has no jurisdiction in the California-Mexico border except in immigration matters that are properly before the courts,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerril said at a news conference in San Francisco. “It doesn’t have the power to detain or deport undocumented immigrants who are just simply in the U.S. who