Thread by @sshermanstokes

thrilled to be publishing "Public Health and the Power to Exclude: Immigrant Expulsions at the Border" with @gulcimmigration & the wonderful @prashasti_b. this piece argues for an end to #Title42, an illegal policy destroying families, and endangering #refugees at the #border. 1/

My piece beings by examining the historic intersections of public health and #immigration law, and the origins of federal quarantine and exclusion power. 2/

Woven into the article are first hand accounts of advocates on both sides of the #border who have witnessed the devastating impact of COVID-19 era immigrant expulsions as #immigrants, children and families are disappeared by the US gov't. 3/

special thank you to the fierce, tireless advocates at @FlorenceProject and @AlOtroLado_Org who demystified #Title42 for me in the early days, when #asylum seekers were disappearing into thin air, and who continue to fight this fight every day. 4/

for more, check it out here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 5/

(and finally, if you were wondering whether the pandemic has been hard on single parents trying to write, teach, and lawyer, i used the word "midst" not once, but *twice* in the first sentence of my abstract. thank you to the editors who kept reading anyway.) 6/