From the Center for the Victims of Torture (http://www.cvt.org/):
I never thought I would repeat the words I spoke in Geneva so long ago, but they ring in my ears once again: “Let us do something meaningful—something profound—to stem this misery.”
Forty years ago this month, Walter Mondale stood in front of the Geneva Meeting on Refugees and Displaced Persons in South-East Asia and said those now-famous words. In his latest editorial for The Washington Post, Mondale describes a heartbreaking and infuriating reality. In 1979, the U.S. led the charge to rally support for increased humanitarian aid and refugee resettlement. Today, President Trump is doing everything he can to undermine or flat-out ignore U.S. laws and regulations relating refugees and asylum seekers. Instead of welcoming and protecting those in dire need—those fleeing violence, persecution and even torture—the U.S. is shutting its doors. The Trump administration is even trying to zero out admissions entirely for 2020.
Read his editorial in our newsroom. And join the Center for Victims of Torture in protecting asylum by contacting your representatives in Washington.
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