Immprof Op-Eds and Blog Posts on Family Separation, Immigration Detention, Asylum Law

Immigration law professors have written a number of outstanding op-eds and blog posts in the past week related to family separation, immigration detention and the treatment of domestic violence and other asylum claims involving non-state actors. In case you missed them, and in no particular order:

• Kristin Collins, Serena Mayeri and Hiroshi Motomura, Los Angeles Times, “Family Relationships Have Long Been Part of the Bedrock of the U.S. Immigration Policy. Then Came Trump,” (“It has taken the Trump administration only 18 months to sabotage our immigration policy’s foundation of equal treatment and family integrity. It may well take years to undo the havoc. And the damage done to families at the border will take far, far longer to repair.”)
• Susan Martin, Fortune Magazine, “Trump’s Asylum Policy is Eerily Similar to America’s During the Holocaust.”
• Adam Cox and Ryan Goodman, Just Security Blog, “Detention of Migrant Families and ‘Deterrance’: Ethical Flaws and Empirical Doubts” (“…if the Trump policy actually worked to deter migration, the policy would end up punishing the most legitimate asylum seekers, the people fleeing the most horror.”)
• Jonathan Weinberg, Detroit News, “The Family Separation Bait-and-Switch.”
• Nickole Miller, Baltimore Sun, “Detaining Families Indefinitely is Unacceptable.”
• Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, American Constitution Society (ACS) Blog, “Unpacking President Trump’s Latest Executive Order,” (referencing Trump’s June 20, 2018 EO, Affording Congress the Opportunity Address Family Separation).
   
• César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, The Guardian, “Cruel and Immoral: America Must Close the Doors of its Immigrant Prisons.”
• Dina Haynes, Gender Policy Report Blog, “Misogyny and Racism in Sessions’ Unraveling of Asylum Law.”
   
• Sabi Ardalan, The Conversation, “Why Domestic Violence and Anti-Gay Violence Qualify as Persecution in Asylum Law.”
• Natalie Nanasi, Dallas Morning News, “Attorney General’s Asylum Ruling Misunderstands Domestic Violence and Miscarries Justice.”
• Rachel Rosenbloom, London School of Economics US Centre Blog, “Separating Families at the Border Takes Harsh Immigration Enforcement Practices to a New Extreme.”
• Kari Hong:
  • Take Care Blog, “That Bible Parable about the Plague of Tort Attorneys who Sued the Border Patrol,” (encouraging private attorneys to file private tort and federal actions claims in federal court against all government officials involved in separation of families at the border);
  • On WBUR (Boston’s NPR), “Why America Needs More, Not Fewer, Asylum Seekers.”

Finally, check out Anil Kalhan’s viral Twitter thread on the June 20, 2018 family separation executive order.

-JKoh