Name: The fundamental right to seek asylum
Uploaded: 2019-07-16T19:53:55Z
Duration: 10 min 45 s
Description: Refugee and immigrants rights attorney Melanie Nezer shares an urgently needed historical perspective on the crisis at the southern US border, showing how citizens can hold their governments accountable for protecting the vulnerable. "A country shows strength through compassion and pragmatism, not through force and through fear," she says.

Refugee and immigrants rights attorney Melanie Nezer shares an urgently needed historical perspective on the crisis at the southern US border, showing how citizens can hold their governments accountable for protecting the vulnerable. "A country shows strength through compassion and pragmatism, not through force and through fear," she says.

Melanie Nezer: The fundamental right to seek asylum

The fundamental right to seek asylum

Highlighting legal asylum seeking as a right, Nezer exposes current policies' failures to uphold humanitarian standards.

Advocating for rational, compassionate migration policies, Nezer emphasizes the role of global cooperation & humanitarian aid.

Violence propels Central American families to flee, paralleling historical refugee crises, underscoring an urgent moral choice.