Resources

NBARC is dedicated to helping asylum-seekers: people who are fleeing persecution in other countries due to their race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. Below are some helpful resources if you want to better understand how asylum works, and how the asylum system often fails the most vulnerable:

• http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/asylum-seekers.html
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/27/will-trumps-new-rules-make-it-harder-to-get-asylum-in-the-u-s-that-will-vary-dramatically-from-one-judge-to-the-next/
• https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/world/canada/canada-refugees-yazidi.html

Here are some resources we have publicized at Passover in 2018:

• A reading suitable for discussing at the Passover Seder, available here.
• https://www.ritualwell.org/sites/default/files/hias_haggadah_2018_color.pdf (HIAS Haggadah Supplement)