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United Nations WORLD REFUGEE DAY NEWSLETTER #7, June 20, 2018.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY
(Newsletter #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4, 2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017).
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Dick,
Last month, Trump nominated anti-immigrant extremist Ronald Mortensen to oversee refugee resettlement in the U.S. as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM). A xenophobic racist like Mortensen should not be the top diplomat overseeing U.S. policies towards the millions of people uprooted by humanitarian crises across the world.
Next month, the Senate will vote on whether to confirm Mortensen in this dangerous position. And we can block him.
Already, there is bipartisan pressure to block Mortensen’s nomination. If we put enough pressure on our Senators right now, we can stop Mortensen and start to break apart the racist infrastructure upholding the militarized and barricaded borders of this country.
Mortensen literally gets paid to be a white supremacist. He works for a far-right, anti-immigrant hate group and spews rhetoric attacking immigrants. What’s more, confirming Mortensen would add yet another bigot to a Trump administration already stacked with anti-migrant and anti-Muslim extremists, from Stephen Miller to Mike Pompeo.
Migration is a human right. The world is facing the worst refugee crisis since World War II — many of whom are fleeing wars caused by the United States’ failed violence-first foreign policy and natural disasters fueled by U.S.-driven climate change —and yet the United States is currently at the lowest refugee resettlement goals in history.
This is no accident. From the Trump administration’s refugee bans disguised as “extreme vetting,” to the Muslim ban, to the inhumane policy of separating migrant kids from their families, Trump’s attacks on refugees are part and parcel of his racist, anti-immigrant agenda and systematic effort to dismantle U.S. refugee resettlement and other immigration relief programs.
On this day and every day, let’s exercise true solidarity with refugees on the frontlines of war, climate catastrophe, social and economic inequalities, and violence. Not just because militarism is a core root cause of the modern-day refugee crisis, but because all humans, especially those fleeing their homes, have the right to safety, shelter and refuge, and the U.S. has an obligation to provide it. Refugees already face devastating obstacles in the pursuit of safety. We can’t allow Mortensen to make this pursuit impossible.
Thank you for standing with refugees today,
Mariam, Aubrey, Tara and the Win Without War team.
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Fleeing Wars and Violence
Refugees and Displaced from Wars and Violence 2017
Climate Refugees and Displaced Persons 2017
Helping
“Canopy” for Northwest Arkansas
A Play and a Diary About WWII Jewish Refugees
UNHCR: UN High Commissioner for Refugees 2017
UNHCR Newsletter 2016
UNA-USA 2017
Kenya, Nigeria, Myanmar, Guatemala, Syria, Europe: children
Equador
UNA-USA 2016 Giving Tuesday
Chobani’s Gives Money
And Athens a Hotel
END UN WORLD REFUGEE DAY NEWSLETTER #7, June 20, 2018.