This World Refugee Day, we’re highlighting five individuals who have shown incredible strength in the face of great danger to get themselves and their families to a place of safety.
Breaking down Title 42, the Trump-era policy that President Biden is using to send refugees back into harm’s way. Preventing asylum seekers from filing their claims is a violation of their human rights.
Despite surviving multiple traumas in their home countries, enduring criminalization in Mexico, and being denied asylum by the United States, these women stuck at the US-Mexico border teach us what it means to joyfully resist. It’s time fix the US asylum process to provide lifesaving refuge to people fleeing persecution because of their gender.