UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nearly 200 million international migrants fuel their home countries' economy by $240 billion a year and spend more than $2 trillion in their host nation, but suffer exploitation and abuse, a U.N.-backed report says.
The Global Commission on International Migration, a 19-member independent panel, says most governments have a haphazard, uncoordinated approach to immigrants and rarely think further than putting more controls on borders.
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