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15 - Do Countries Have the Right to Exclude Refugees?

November 30, 2018 • The Badlands • Episode 15

Badlands contributors Toby Napoletano and Michael Hughes discuss whether countries have the right to close their borders to refugees. Do they have this right, or does closing their borders violate the rights of refugees to not be confined? Under what kinds of circumstances could excluding refugees be justified, and what does this mean for the homeless in the U.S.?