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Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Immigration

Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Matt Nadel

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

Jeffrey S. Kahn

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

Paul Linden-Retek

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

Lauren Carasik
Amidst chants of “send her back,” it’s clear that we need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.
Stephanie DeGooyer

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

Lauren Carasik

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

Matthew Longo
Trump v. Hawaii is not about religion. It’s about the president’s unlimited power at the border.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

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

Matthew Longo

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

Maytha Alhassen

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