ImmProf Op-Eds & Essays on Asylum, Family Detention, Trump v. Hawaii from this Week

Members of the Immprof community have continued to write important op-eds and essays in response to current events related to asylum and Trump v. Hawaii , the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the travel ban. Here’s a collection of pieces from the past week (updated July 1):

• Ingrid Eagly (UCLA), Steven Shafer (Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project) and Jana Whalley (National Immigration Law Center), Washington Post, Don’t Let Trump’s New Immigration Policy Trick You (on family detention)
   
• Lindsay Harris (University of District Columbia), Washington Post, Seeking Asylum Isn’t a Crime. Why Do Trump and Sessions Act Like It Is?
• Audrey Macklin (Toronto), Washington Post, Canada is Abandoning Asylum Seekers in a Hostile Country: The U.S. (on the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement)
• Jacqueline Bhabha (Harvard), Globe and Mail, America’s Treatment of Migrants is Sending the Country Back to the Dark Ages
• Maryellen Fullerton (Brooklyn), The Hill, Criminal Prosecutions at the Border Violate International Law
• Susan Bibler Coutin (UCI – Criminology, Law & Society), The Globe Post, President Trump and Zero Tolerance for Victims of Persecution
• Anil Kalhan (Drexel), ACS Blog, Trump v. Hawaii and Chief Justice Roberts’s “Korematsu is Overruled” Parlor Trick (“Ultimately, Roberts’s emphatic but misleading disavowal of Korematsu functions mostly as a jurisprudential version of protesting that the Court “doesn’t have a racist bone in its body,” or of  trotting out the Court’s Japanese American friend to refute any contention that it might be validating racism.”)
• Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt – History), Slate, Enemies of the State: America has always discriminated in the name of security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not
• Irene Scharf (U Mass Dartmouth), Human Rights at Home Blog, The US Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Decision
• Elizabeth McCormick (Tulsa), Tulsa World, Attorney General Sessions Ignores International Law and Human Rights in Denying Asylum to Domestic Violence Victims
• Natalie Nanasi (Southern Methodist University), TribTalk (Texas Tribune), A Government Attack on Immigrant Women and Children

And from last month, but still relevant:

• Andrew Schoenholtz (Georgetown), New York Daily News, Trump’s Closed Door to Refugees is a Massive Betrayal of American Values, and a Serious Humanitarian Failure

-JKoh