Episode 35: Let’s Not Make the Same Mistake

In this interview, Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy urges listeners to file comments opposing the Biden administration’s proposed asylum rule by 11:59 EDT, Monday, March 27, 2023.

ACTION STEPS

1. Prepare a comment and invite friends and family to also file a comment opposing the proposed rule that will undermine refugee protection.
A. Attorneys may use this template which also includes the diagram on the process discussed in the podcast.

B. Organizations or community groups may want to use this template.
2. You can also email the White House and your Senators and Representative stating your opposition to this proposed rule emphasizing the need for a humanitarian border policy. Please find your individual link for your Senators or Representatives and urge them to oppose the Biden rule.

RESOURCES

Solutions for a Humane Border Policy, January 17, 2023.
NIJC’s Policy Director Heidi Altman discuss some of the many problems with the proposed rule in her interview.
Javier Zamora’s book is Solito, A Memoir, (Hogarth, N.Y. 2022). Mr. Zamora will be speaking at the NIJC’s Human Rights Award Luncheon on June 6, 2023; click here for information.
That only 10% of visas that were available were provided in the war years came from Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1987), 503.
Melissa del Bosque describes some of the problems with the CBP One mobile app, in “From Education to Everything Else,” The Border Chronicle , March 14, 2023.
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