Lawyer Fights for Syrians to Stay

The Takeaway

Are conditions in Syria reaching a point where a rescue is in order? Not the rescue of a nation — the military interventions contemplated to stop President Bashar al-Assad and the growing violence and lawlessness would only add to the violence, we’re told by NATO and the U.S. officials. But what of rescuing individual Syrians who fear for their lives?
On March 29, the Department of Homeland Security added Syria to the list of nations deemed so unstable that that temporary protected status is granted to the country’s nationals living in the U.S. Aiman Ibrahim  is a  New Jersey-based lawyer helping Syrian nationals gain temporary protected status.

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