Keeping the Flame Lit: A conversation with David Milibands on US refugee and asylum policy

"No refugees need apply" might well be the slogan of the Trump Administration. What is it like at this time of backlash and polarization to lead a humanitarian agency that helps refugees?

David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, tells Tempest Tossed host Alex Aleinikoff that refugees are “caught up in a wider discontent" about American immigration policy. 

“When issues of immigration and issues of refugees are confused it’s bad for both immigrants and for refugees,” Miliband, a former foreign secretary of the U.K., says in this episode where he also discusses global trends on displacement.