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Peck, Alison Elizabeth, 1970- author.
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Immigration courts -- United States -- History.
Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
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The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction / Alison Peck.
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Peck, Alison Elizabeth, 1970- author.
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects
Immigration courts -- United States -- History.
Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
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9780520381179 (hardcover)
0520381173 (hardcover)
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xiv, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Attorney General's immigration courts -- Whittling away at asylum law -- Policing the immigration courts -- A new type of tough in the Department of Labor -- Refusal -- Invasion -- The Welles mission -- Alien enemies -- Reckoning -- Un día de fuego -- President Bush's department -- Checks and imbalances -- Reforming the immigration courts.
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"The United States immigration courts are not really 'courts' at all but an office of the Department of Justice, the nation's law enforcement agency. This book uses narrative history, focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush administrations, to help readers understand both the human tragedy of our immigration court system today and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposals to reform our immigration court system. Peck provides an accessible legal analysis of recent events to make the case for independent immigration courts, proposing that the courts be moved from the Department of Justice into an independent, Article I court system. As long as the immigration courts remain under the authority of the attorney general, the administration of immigration justice will remain a game of political football with people's very lives on the line"--
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