Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Immigration

Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

The Trump administration has rejected calls for mass humanitarian release and continues to deport detainees to Latin America.

We need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.

A leaked Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.

We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an aberration. U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.