Anne Richard is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration. It’s a bureau within the State Department that provides assistance to refugees, people who’ve been displaced, and other victims of conflict from around the world. At one point, the bureau had a budget of $3.4 billion.
Richard recently gave a talk at the University of Houston. She sat down with Houston Matters producer Maggie Martin to talk about how the politics of refugee assistance have changed.