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This is the LawFair Archive.

Hello, this is LawFair in turn, Ajay Sarmer,

with a podcast from the LawFair Archives for July 17, 2021.

Earlier this week, the Lithuanian Parliament voted to allow the mass detention of asylum seekers

as it faces an influx of foreign migrants, many from locations in the Middle East and Iraq and Syria

coming from their neighbor Belarus, who some say is deliberately directing migrants

through the two countries shared border as retribution for Lithuanian willingness

to host a Belarusian dissidents.

The complicated situation is a reminder of the challenges posed by the global refugee crisis

and the abuse that migrants caught up in the crisis can often face from multiple parties.

For today's episode from the Archives, I went back to April 2016.

For a discussion with Eric Schwartz, then Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

at the University of Minnesota, who had previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State

for Population, Refugees, and Migration.

He and Ben Wittis discussed US refugee policy in response to the Syrian Civil War

and other global challenges and how to balance security needs and humanitarian objectives.

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