HIAS’ CEO, Beth Oppenheim, appeared on NBC San Diego to call attention to new policies targeting resettled refugees with arrest and detention, and to call for protection for people who were welcomed through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, a longstanding humanitarian program which until recently operated with bipartisan support.
“Whatever is in the headlines today, it involves the lived experience of people who have been refugees in the past. And for me, that’s what carries my passion and my work forward…We have to keep reminding people that that really is the story of America.”
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