American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations - From Carter to Trump

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

Table des matières

Introduction - deportation champion: Part I. Clinton and Bush Lead the Way for Others: 1. Nightmarish ICE enforcement tools; Part II. Obama's Shame: 2. Deporting unaccompanied children; 3. Family detention centers: creation, conditions, and continued detention; 4. Country conditions: why women and children flee the Northern Triangle; 5. Challenges to obtaining relief - asylum, right to counsel, due process, and mental health considerations; Part III. Entering the Trump ICE Age: 6. Contextualizing the Trump immigration enforcement regime; Part IV. And the Winner Is ...: 7. Closing - a new deportation king; Epilogue - disrupting the deportation royalty.

A propos de l'auteur

Bill Ong Hing is Professor of Immigration Policy at the University of San Francisco, School of Law. He is the author of multiple books including, Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration (2010). He is also the lead author of Immigration Law and Social Justice (2017). He was co-counsel in the precedent-setting Supreme Court asylum case, INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987), and represented the State Bar of California in helping to grant a law license to an undocumented law graduate.

Résumé

This book studies how recent immigration policies in the United States developed during the Obama administration and are now being expanded in the first months of the Trump presidency. Documenting the harsh treatment of immigrants over the past twenty years, Ong Hing shows how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bill Ong Hing, Bill Ong (University of San Francisco) Hing, Hing Bill Ong, Bill Ong Hing, Bill (University of San Francisco) Ong Hing
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108459211
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45921-1
• Pages: 364
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit international, droit étranger; USA, Human Rights, LAW / General, 20th Century, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political leaders & leadership, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Political leaders and leadership, Central government policies