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The fundamental right to seek asylum

TEDxMidAtlantic 2019Mar 201910 min1944353 views

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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.