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Recovering The Face-To-Face In American Immigration Law, Marie Failinger
Recovering The Face-To-Face In American Immigration Law, Marie Failinger
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Professor Failinger’s article begins with stories of the Chinese Exclusion period and modern Arizona border immigration. Tracing Emmanuel Levinas’ argument about violence and totalization of the vulnerable Other as it is manifested in discriminatory legislation in these periods, she argues for a return to the Face-to-Face in deciding immigration requests for admission to the U.S. through a rubric of equitable guided discretion.
No More Deaths: On Conscience, Civil Disobedience, And A New Role For Truth Commissions, Marie Failinger
No More Deaths: On Conscience, Civil Disobedience, And A New Role For Truth Commissions, Marie Failinger
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This article uses as its focal point the emerging civil disobedience movement in southwestern United States, aimed at providing humanitarian assistance to undocumented workers crossing the U.S. border, and the government's prosecution response to that movement. It argues that the courts that have considered such civil disobedience in previous cases, such as the 1980s Sanctuary movement, have a limited understanding of the right of conscience, and utilizes the insights of Reformation theology on the nature of the conscience to argue that it is necessary for the United States to respect the public role of conscience of civil disobedients in mass …