We’re increasingly hearing the Biden team talk about their vision for a “fair, humane, and orderly immigration system.”
Earlier this year I wrote briefly about what similar terms—fair, humane, and workable—could mean. /1 nevadacurrent.com/2020/02/20/why…
Fair /2
Humane /3
Workable /4
Here’s a fuller discussion of how building a fair, humane, and workable immigration system can help to restore the rule of law. /end americanprogress.org/issues/immigra…
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Presiding judge Hanen begins by explaining why he denies counsel’s request to argue the case remotely and instead had counsel fly into TX from NJ and DC.
Playing armchair epidemiologist about COVID, honestly.
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Now explaining why he’s not wearing a mask for the indoor court hearing.
Not an auspicious beginning to the argument.
And there are people in the gallery watching the proceedings!
6:40 into Descendants 3 and I’ve tried to force my daughter into a conversation about equity, clemency, immigration policy, and integration v. assimilation.
Am I doing it right?
OK at 22:36 and the wrongheaded Title 42/“total and complete shutdown” on entries just dropped.
24:45 and they throw some complexity into the idea that #RepresentationMatters. The shutdown was Mal’s idea!
Over the past four years, the Trump administration used the Department of Homeland Security to inflict maximum pain on millions of people, dismantling immigration and humanitarian protection policies while degrading and distorting the institution itself. /1
At a time when the country faced genuine threats to the safety of all Americans from a global pandemic to increasingly frequent and destructive extreme weather events caused by climate change, DHS under Trump took its eyes off the ball and failed the American people. /2
Having served in three Senate-confirmed posts, first as a U.S. Attorney, then as USCIS Director, and most recently as DHS Deputy Secretary, @AliMayorkas has the expertise to chart a new course for the department and the established trust of career staff to get the job done. /3
The creation of a task force—one that lives in the State Department, *not* DHS—must NOT be seen as a usurpation of the work that’s already taking place.
The USG has unclean hands. No credibility. The job off finding parents cannot be theirs. /2
It’s hard to imagine anything more counterproductive than the idea of sending US law enforcement personnel—especially DHS—into Central American countries to search for parents whose children were years earlier ripped from their arms.
Great piece by @DLind that serves as both an explainer about the network of policies the Trump admin has adopted to end humanitarian protections along the southern border and a way to ask provocative questions about the future.
Dara divides the Democratic approach into two camps: those who view #immigration as a national security matter who embrace deterrence and those who view is as a humanitarian issue.
I'd suggest a third approach: immigration as a regulatory matter.
Dara observes that prior to the early 2010s, deterrence was an "uncontroversial strategy."
1) That's not entirely true. The US strategy of deterring (and punishing) Guatemalan & Salvadoran asylum seekers in the 1980s birthed the sanctuary movement and loads of litigation.