Elon Law Professor Heather Scavone, the director of the Law School's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, shed light on international and U.S. procedures for screening refugees in an interview with WGHP FOX8 News.
“Refugees that come into the United States have been vetted by the United Nations, by the state department, by homeland security, by the Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration by the U.S. Citizenship and Migration services before they are brought to the US,” said Scavone in the interview with FOX8 News, noting the process can take between 18 and 24 months.
“When we hear about the refugee crisis in Europe, those are individuals that are entering at a land border then asking for the protection of refugee status once they get there,” Scavone continued. “They’ve been through no security screening its fundamentally different than what we’re doing here in the U.S.”
Watch the FOX8 News interview with Elon Law Professor Heather Scavone on refugee resettlement here.
Learn more about Elon Law’s Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic here.