Becca Heller likes to say that she leads an army. But her soldiers don’t battle with guns. They’re lawyers and law students. They use the law to protect the legal and human rights of refugees seeking shelter and assistance, and their work has never been easy. It only got more difficult with the election of Donald Trump and his efforts to enact a travel ban. Heller is in Utah this week, and she joins us Thursday to talk about America’s immigration policies and the challenges of refugee resettlement.
Becca Heller is the director and co-founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project and a visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School.
Heller is in Utah for a conversation with Iraqi immigrant and IRAP case worker Yusef Al-Tamimi at the University of Utah's S. J. Quinney College of Law. That's tonight, November 2, at 7 p.m. at the college's Moot Courtroom. DETAILS
Meet refugees here in Utah working to make a fresh start. RadioWest went to Laziz Kitchen to talk to Moudi Sbeity and the women making food there.
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