International Rescue Committee Issues Statement on Conclusion of 3-Day Visit to Texas, Mexico
March 10, 2020
March 10, 2020
NEW YORK, March 10 -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following statement by President and CEO David Miliband:
"In Dallas, Texas and Juarez, Mexico I met IRC staff and clients and witnessed first-hand the humanitarian crisis that continues to ripple through politics both north and south of the US-Mexico border. It is time to say this crisis can be managed - and is a choice not about whether desperate people will arrive or not, but whether to manage their arrival i . . .
"In Dallas, Texas and Juarez, Mexico I met IRC staff and clients and witnessed first-hand the humanitarian crisis that continues to ripple through politics both north and south of the US-Mexico border. It is time to say this crisis can be managed - and is a choice not about whether desperate people will arrive or not, but whether to manage their arrival i . . .