Syrian refugee crisis up for discussion at Florida Coastal School of Law

As NATO’s chief calls for calm and “de-escalation” following news that Turkey shot down a Russian warplane at the Syrian border, Florida Coastal School of Law took the issue local with a Tuesday panel discussion on the Syrian refugee crisis and the legal issues around refugee resettlement.

Also on the agenda, the recent House bill blocking refugee resettlement of Syrians and Iraqis.

“My mother’s family fled Iraq in 1971, and my father’s family fled Iraq in 1967,” says Elizabeth Lazar, a third-year law student at FCSL.  

“They both left in order to escape persecution for belonging to both a religious and ethnic minority,”…

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