Introduction Immigration was a major focus for the Trump Administration. Through extreme rhetoric and legal action, the Trump administration revived a longstanding dispute: birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is a legal doctrine revolving around the granting of automatic citizenship.[1] Trump’s goal was to end the principle of birthright citizenship and impose […]
Immigration Law
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Imagine waking up one morning and coming to the realization that your entire world has been turned upside down. The life you once held dear has been destroyed by disorder and complete persecution. You have become subjected to a nation in upheaval. There is political unrest and carnage at every […]
More and more populations are experiencing substantial environmental changes as human-induced climate change exacerbates the scarcity of resources and disrupts traditional weather patterns.[1] As international efforts and responses to climate change continue to be debated, other pressing questions remain relevant, such as: How should countries respond to and protect those […]
When President Biden entered office, many of the previous administration’s restrictive policies were terminated, such as the travel and visa restrictions or the Muslim ban.[1] However, the administration was not prepared to also handle the large number of migrants arriving at the border.[2] It is not the amount of immigrants […]
Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was accused of forcibly sterilizing detainees under their care.[1] Forced sterilization can occur under many different circumstances, such as when an individual is not aware of the procedure taking place, has been given no opportunity to truly consent to the procedure, or gives […]
The United States has long employed tactics of family separation in order to dissuade immigrants from undertaking the treacherous journey across the southern border. Prior to the Trump administration, families were generally paroled into the United States to wait for their immigration cases to be processed or the families were […]
The United States has a controversial history with immigration. For one, the United States is mythologized as a nation of immigrants—with the exception of Native Americans. However, since the country’s founding, Congress has passed, and the Supreme Court has upheld, statutes excluding certain groups of people from immigrating to the […]
Renowned civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to eliminating injustice in the United States by addressing poverty and demanding racial reconciliation for our country’s oppressive history towards people of color.[1] One of the principal tenets of Stevenson’s work is the importance of “getting proximate to the problem.”[2] […]
“This really is an invasion of our country by human traffickers. These are people that are horrible people bringing in women mostly but bringing in women and children into our country.” – United States President Donald Trump[1] In 2019, President Donald Trump became more tenacious in his need for […]
On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom (“UK”) held a referendum to decide whether it should withdraw from the European Union (“EU”), the economic and political union between twenty-eight European countries.[1] UK citizens voted to leave the EU by a percentage of fifty-two percent to forty-eight percent.[2] Despite multiple delays, […]