Katharine Viner Quotes

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

Through both our admissions policies and, equally importantly, through our support for international protection and assistance, the United States leads the world in responding to refugee and related humanitarian crises.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.

I don't understand why Germans are openly demonstrating against Islamization and radicalization but don't help the people who flee from such horrors.

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.

Instead of people thinking, 'Oh God, look at this terrible refugee crisis; we must do our bit', there's a lot of people thinking, 'How can we get out of doing our bit and find reasons not to provide sanctuary for these people?'

The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.

After the separation of children from families seeking to join the United States was embraced as the official policy of our government, we should ask ourselves what story we will tell. President Trump's story is one of cruelty - that we may do something unfathomable to deter families from coming to America.

Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?

I recognize and appreciate the legitimate concerns of residents and officials in southwestern New Mexico, particularly Hidalgo County, who have asked for our assistance, as migrants and asylum-seekers continue to appear at their doorstep.

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.