November 30, 2023
This week a small bipartisan group of senators are negotiating President Biden’s supplemental funding request, and shockingly they have put asylum protections for people fleeing harm on the chopping block in exchange for funding to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. There is no conceivable reason, other than cruelty, why foreign aid should be held hostage in exchange for codifying the dismantling of the U.S. asylum system. Asylum protects the most vulnerable among us who have fled dangerous peril, and gutting those protections will undeniably result in increased human suffering.