Yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Colleagues from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and I collaborated two years ago in considering as an ethical question how many refugees the US should accept for resettlement. President Obama had bumped the number up. President Trump slashed it. President Biden is going to move it up this year and aim to top Obama’s number next fiscal year. Such drastic changes belie what we found among most experts on the right and left: a consensus on the moral imperative and the need to maintain consistency even as they differed on the risks and benefits. We’ll discuss the findings and implications 12-1 pm March 5 on Zoom, so join us and register here.
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As an American, AND a retired UNHCR professional, this discussion is timely and necessary. What should be done for the more than 500 children that were separated from their parents is a topic I hope is discussed.