Refugees International President Eric Schwartz offers some perspectives on the migrant caravan and on questions relating to asylum.
Former U.S. Officials Urge U.S. Vice President Pence and Mexican President-Elect López Obrador to Protect Asylum Seekers
In a letter addressed to Mexican President-Elect López Obrador and U.S. Vice President Pence, 19 former senior U.S. officials urged the governments of Mexico and the United States to emphasize that the issue of migration from Central America is primarily a humanitarian issue.
Letter Urges U.S. Vice President Pence and Mexican President-Elect López Obrador to Protect Asylum Seekers
In a letter addressed to Mexican President-Elect López Obrador and U.S. Vice President Pence, 19 former senior U.S. officials involved in national security, refugees and asylum, and Western hemispheric affairs urged the governments of Mexico and the United States to emphasize that the issue of migration from Central America is primarily a humanitarian issue.
Mexico and the United States Must Suspend Talks on Barring Asylum Seekers
Refugees International urges the governments of Mexico and the United States to suspend any discussion of an agreement that would force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico pending a determination of their U.S. asylum claims.
Colombia: Two Crises in One Country
It is impossible to view the Venezuelan displacement crisis on its own when there are already 7.7 million internally displaced people in Colombia.
Civil Society Can Move Forward on Statelessness in the United States
Eric Schwartz outlines an actionable advocacy campaign that civil society can undertake to move forward on the issue of statelessness in the context of an administration that is unlikely to make progress on the issue and in fact risks exacerbating statelessness in the United States.
RI Statement on Proposed Administration Rule and Anticipated Presidential Proclamation on Asylum
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security memorandum on limiting access to asylum is appalling, and Refugees International is deeply alarmed about any presidential proclamation that would bar access to asylum to those entering the United States between U.S. ports of entry.
RI Response to President Trump’s Remarks on Immigration
The efforts of individuals to seek asylum in the United States represent a policy challenge but not a national security crisis. The president has willfully and cynically vilified an asylum seeker population composed of vulnerable children, women, and men.
RI Joins U.S. Humanitarian and Development Organizations in Denouncing Discrimination and Intolerance
As American faith-based and secular organizations working to end poverty, hunger, disease, and injustice in every part of the world, we unequivocally condemn the recent horrendous attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Refugees International Memorandum to the President on Migrant Caravan
Refugees International wrote a memorandum to President Trump, urging a new approach toward Central American asylum seekers.