Katrina Lantos Swett: “I do think probably the single most significant thing that could be done to make IRFA a more effective piece of…”

This is going to be part of our official policy that the promotion of human rights should be a central and principal goal of American foreign policy.

We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.

I think one thing we need to be prepared to do as a government is raise the refugee resettlement quotas for some of these horribly targeted communities in the region of, you know, Iraq, in particular, the area that ISIL has taken over in…

Religious freedom is a pivotal human right affirmed by our Nation and international treaties and obligations.