(28 Mar 2025)
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Atlanta – 28 March 2025
1. Various of audience listening to speakers
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Carter, Grandson of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter:
"I know that the Refugee Act of 1980 is it was in my grandfather’s heart. And one reason…really for two reasons. But one of them, the first, is that it comes from his faith. That is such an important part of who he was and how he acted out in this world to put that faith into action."
3. Various of audience listening
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Carter, Grandson of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter:
"I don’t know what this country will do when the most vulnerable people who come from around the world show up at our door. I know what we’ve always done before. And I know what we should do. And I think that as we continue to understand who we are. We continue to put the our our fundamental principles into action, the fundamental identity of this country, the fundamental identity of people like Jimmy Carter and Jimmy Carter’s heart, and the folks in this room, then I know how we will treat them."
5. Wide shot of audience listening
STORYLINE:
The Carter Center, along with the Coalition of Refugee Service Agencies, celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980 Friday.
The refugee program, created by Congress in 1980, is a form of legal migration to the U.S. for people displaced by war, natural disaster or persecution — a process that often takes years and involves significant vetting. It is different from asylum, by which people newly arrived in the U.S. can seek permission to remain because they fear persecution in their home country.
The celebration comes amidst a legal battle over the future of the program. President Trump halted the nation’s refugee resettlement program as part of a series of executive orders cracking down on immigration, saying cities had been taxed by “record levels of migration” and couldn’t “absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees.” He barred refugees from coming to the U.S., and the administration began cutting off funding for agencies that support refugees.
Several speakers at the Friday event spoke about the impact of the program being frozen.
"I don’t know what this country will do when the most vulnerable people who come from around the world show up at our door," said Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s grandson. "I know what we’ve always done before, and I know what we should do."
More recently, an appeals court ruled the Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation’s refugee admissions system.
The order narrowed a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle who found the program should be restarted.
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