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Professor David Orentlicher talked with a reporter from the “Washington Post” for a story on immigration that was published January 30.

The piece outlines the argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7^th Circuit regarding Indiana’s decision last year to block aid to refugees from Syria who were relocating to the state. Critics of the Indiana policy and President Donald Trump’s executive order barring migrants and refugees from seven predominately Muslim countries say that’s contrary to legal principle, Professor Orentlicher says in the piece.

““In terms of the principles of our laws, it’s the idea that you be judged as an individual,” Professor Orentlicher said. “To treat Syrians and Iraqis and Iranians the same is inconsistent with our principle, that we judge your guilt or innocence based on yourself, what you’ve done, not what others have done.”

Professor Orentlicher also appeared on Indianapolis television news station WRTV on January 30 to discuss the policy.

Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes in health care law and ethics.