The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts (eBook)

War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction

Alison Peck (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
240 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38118-6 (ISBN)

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How the immigration courts became part of the nation’s law enforcement agency—and how to reshape them.

During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really “courts” at all but an office of the Department of Justice—the nation’s law enforcement agency.
 
This original and surprising diagnosis shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposals to reform our immigration court system. Peck provides an accessible legal analysis of recent events to make the case for independent immigration courts, proposing that the courts be moved into an independent, Article I court system. As long as the immigration courts remain under the authority of the attorney general, the administration of immigration justice will remain a game of political football—with people’s very lives on the line.
 

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Preface 

Part I. Crisis in the Immigration Courts
1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts
2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law
3. Policing the Immigration Courts

Part II. From World War II to 9/11: The Ghost of the Fifth Column
4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor
5. Refusal
6. Invasion
7. The Welles Mission
8. Alien Enemies
9. Reckoning 
10. Un Día de Fuego 
11. President Bush's Department 

Part III. The Future of the Immigration Courts
12. Checks and Imbalances
13. Reforming the Immigration Courts 

Epilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century 

Notes 
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: America • Asylum • Attorney General • case proceedings • Citizenship and Immigration Service • Department of Justice • Executive branch • fatal consequences • FBI • fear • Fifth Column • Great Depression • History • Homeland Security • Human tragedy • immigration courts • independent system • Injustice • law enforcement agency • Laws • Legal Analysis • Litigation • Nazi Propaganda • neutral • Political • Power • Refugee • Spies • Trump Administration • war • War on Terror • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38118-1 / 0520381181
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38118-6 / 9780520381186