Krish O'Mara Vignarajah

immigration and refugee advocate

10 stories

10 quotes

These families did everything asked of them,
A refugee program that centres one group and sidelines all others is an abdication of our global humanitarian leadership and an abandonment of thousands of vulnerable families,
There is no euphemism that can sanitize caging human beings. Calling a metal box a ‘calming area’ is an affront to the English language and to human dignity alike,
They now face an impossible choice: remain without status and risk arrest and deportation, or return to a Haiti marred by gang violence, kidnapping and the collapse of basic services,
In a stunning contradiction, the administration advises Americans against all travel to Haiti — and instructs those who go anyway to draft a will and submit DNA samples so their remains can be identified,
Birthright citizenship survived the Chinese Exclusion Act, Jim Crow … and executive order that would have essentially turned the maternity ward into a customs checkpoint,

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