Donia Human Rights Center Lecture:
"Are Refugees a Security Risk? Using National Security and Human Rights Values to Protect Refugees and the Homeland"

Hardy Vieux, Legal Director, Human Rights First and Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, U-M Ford School of Public Policy

We are in the midst of the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. And yet refugees that hope to look to the United States for safe haven are encountering a political discourse that refers to walls, travel bans, and registries that invoke a bygone era in American history. Much of this discourse is animated by the understandable desire to make the homeland safe as possible. In doing so, have we abandoned our democratic principles or are we simply embracing a new norm that necessitates more vigilance? Or, perhaps, a binary narrative can and should give way to one that seeks to interlace fundamental human rights principles with national security safeguards. If such a moderated path exists, what does it look like and how do we find it?

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