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Joan Rosenhauer
Joan Rosenhauer is the executive director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, which advocates for refugees and displaced people in over 50 countries.
Articles by Joan Rosenhauer
A woman washes clothes as migrants settle at the Bruzgi checkpoint center at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Dec. 23, 2021. Since Nov. 8, a large group of migrants, mostly Iraqi Kurds, has been stranded at the border crossing with Poland. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
America has a duty to help Middle Eastern refugees. Withdrawing from Afghanistan didn’t change that.
Joan RosenhauerDan Corrou
Since the end of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, much of the world has turned its attention away from geopolitical conflicts in the region. But these issues have not disappeared.
In this July 5, 2021, file photo, Alex Cortillo, from Honduras, gets a hug from Erika Valladares Ponce, also from Honduras, in Tijuana, Mexico, as he waits to cross into the United States to begin the asylum process. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Covid-19 is not an excuse to keep out refugees. Biden must restore the asylum process.
Joan Rosenhauer
Continuing the Trump administration’s restrictions on asylum seekers is not necessary for public health, and it undermines our long history as a place of refuge.