United Nations member states — absent the United States — are in the midst of negotiating a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (“the Compact”), an international agreement that would establish a multilateral framework for migration governance. There are several areas of contention which could derail the effort and produce a document which does little, if anything, to impact the status quo. This paper from the Scalabrini Migration Study Centers examines these points of disagreement and offers improvements that must be made to the text which could make the Global Compact for Migration a meaningful, if not unprecedented, achievement.