What is it about?
This paper documents how US immigration policies have evolved over more than two decades. While the public debate on immigration has focused on persons who illegally cross the US-MEXICO border and potential security threats, US laws and policies have increasingly gutted and terminated legal immigration programs, stripping legal immigrants of status and blocking legal migration channels. And they have increasingly impacted lawful permanent residents and US citizens.
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Why is it important?
This paper provides an evidence-based counter-narrative to the mainstream immigration debate in the United States and globally. It illustrates that the denial of human rights may begin with a disfavored group (the undocumented) on facially neutral grounds (like security or the rule of law), bit it invariably spills over to other populations, including citizens.
Perspectives
The Trump administration's attacks on the rule of law have been well-documented, although they are not well-understood by the US public. The president may will likely go down in history as the sui generis nativist president. However, his administration has built its anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies on an edifice of laws and policies that extend back to the Clinton adminstration and even earlier.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: From IIRIRA to Trump: Connecting the Dots to the Current US Immigration Policy Crisis, Journal on Migration and Human Security, July 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2331502418786718.
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