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Manufactured Emergencies, Robert Tsai
Manufactured Emergencies, Robert Tsai
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Emergencies are presumed to be unusual affairs, but the United States has been in one state of emergency or another for the last forty years. That is a concern. The erosion of democratic norms has led not only to the collapse of the traditional conceptual boundary between ordinary rule and emergency governance, but also to the emergence of an even graver problem: the manufactured crisis. In an age characterized by extreme partisanship, institutional gridlock, and technological manipulation of information, it has become exceedingly easy and far more tempting for a President to invoke extraordinary power by ginning up exigencies. To …
Why The Legal Strategy Of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All, Jamie Abrams
Why The Legal Strategy Of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All, Jamie Abrams
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This article applies a family law lens to explore the systemic and traumatic effects of modern laws and policies on immigrant families. A family law lens widens the scope of individuals harmed by recent immigration laws and policies to show why all families are affected and harmed by shifts in state power, state action, and state rhetoric. The family law lens reveals a worrisome shift in intentionality that has moved the state from a bystander to family-based immigration trauma to an incendiary agent perpetrating family trauma.
Modern immigration laws and policies are deploying legal and political strategies that intentionally sever …