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Full-Text Articles in Immigration Law
Australia's Guantanamo Bay: How Australian Migration Laws Violate The United Nations Convention Against Torture, Katelin Morales
Australia's Guantanamo Bay: How Australian Migration Laws Violate The United Nations Convention Against Torture, Katelin Morales
American University International Law Review
No abstract provided.
No Due Process, No Asylum, And No Accountability: The Dissonance Between Refugee Due Process And International Obligations In The United States, Marissa Hill
American University International Law Review
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Arbitrary Detention? The Immigration Detention Bed Quota, Anita Sinha
Arbitrary Detention? The Immigration Detention Bed Quota, Anita Sinha
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
When President Obama took office in 2009, Congress through appropriations linked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) funding to “maintaining” 33,400 immigration detention beds a day. This provision, what this Article refers to as the bed quota, remains in effect, except now the mandate is 34,000 beds a day. Since 2009, DHS detentions of non-citizens have gone up by nearly 25 percent. To accommodate for this significant spike over a relatively short period of time, the federal government has relied considerably on private prison corporations to build and operate immigration detention facilities.
This Article takes a comprehensive look at …
Independence And Immigration, Amanda Frost
Independence And Immigration, Amanda Frost
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Danger And Dignity: Immigrant Day Laborers And Occupational Risk, Jayesh Rathod
Danger And Dignity: Immigrant Day Laborers And Occupational Risk, Jayesh Rathod
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The plight of immigrant workers in the United States has captured significant scholarly attention in recent years. Despite the prevalence of discourses regarding this population, one set of issues has received relatively little attention: immigrant workers’ exposure to unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, and their corresponding susceptibility to workplace injuries and illnesses. Researchers have consistently found that immigrant workers suffer disproportionately from occupational injuries and fatalities, even when controlling for industry and occupation. Why, then, are foreign-born workers at greater risk for workplace injuries and fatalities, when compared with their native-born counterparts? This Article seeks to develop answers to that …