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The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts : War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction /
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 syste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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