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13 SUR - Int'l J. on Hum Rts. 49 (2016)
Not So Safe and Sound

handle is hein.journals/surij13 and id is 49 raw text is: THE SUR FILE ON MIGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS - NOT SO SAFE AND SOUND1 Jamil Dakwar e The U.S. Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act is another reminder e that the immigrant population in the U.S. is increasingly vulnerable ABSTRACT Despite its historical role as a refuge for people from all over the world seeking protection and a new life, in recent years, the United States of America (U.S.) has started to roll back its human rights protections for asylum seekers. Jamil Dakwar describes how, in response to the Paris attacks and other events in Europe and the U.S., which raised alarm over the threat of terrorism, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation known as the SAFE Act that specifically targets Syrian and Iraqi refugees and excludes them from protection in the U.S. Dakwar notes how the growing Islamophobic hysteria that has characterised much of the U.S. presidential cycle is threatening to dismantle critical human rights protections and the domestic civil rights not only offoreign-born refugees seeking assistance in the U.S., but also of minority communities already living in the country. These restrictive and discriminatory immigration policies have also targeted asylum-seekers arriving in the U.S. from Central America with devastating consequences for families and young children. In explicitly denying protections for Syrian and Iraqi refugees fleeing appalling danger, this article explores how the SAFE Act violates severalfundamental human rights laws and principles. KEYWORDS International human rights Refugee protections I U.S. treaty obligations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) I Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees *SUR 23-v.13n.23.49- 60 1 201 E

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