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The Separation of Migrant Families at the Border under the Trump Administration’s Zero-Tolerance Policy: A Critical Analysis of the Mistreatment of Immigrant Children Held in U.S. Custody
Get PDFThis article provides a critical analysis of the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy that separated migrant families at the Southwest United States border from April to June 2018. It will provide a statistical analysis regarding the number of migrant children that were separated from their parents during this time period, and it will describe the poor living conditions that many of these children were subjected to as they waited for their parent’s immigration cases to be decided. Additionally, this article will also critically analyze the United States’ history of mistreating migrant children who started to flee their war-torn countries in Central America in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, and it will compare and contrast the zero-tolerance policy to how the Obama Administration handled migrant families at the border.
The article will also discuss the landmark United States case law that set out the standards and procedures that immigration officials must follow before they separate migrant families at the border, as well as the standards and procedures that these officials must follow to ensure the health and general welfare of migrant children once they are separated from their parents. Moreover, the article will also discuss the standards and procedures for how refugee families attempting to cross the border should be treated according to international law. The article will then describe how the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy violated both the landmark United States cases law and international law when they separated migrant children from their parents at the border and subjected them to inhumane living conditions.
Finally, this article will propose two possible solutions that would ensure that the mass separation of migrant families, and the gross mistreatment of migrant children held in U.S. custody at the border under the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy would never occur again
STATES AS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTORS: ASSESSING ADVOCACY MECHANISMS WITHIN A STATE’S LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES
Get PDFWhen Less is More: The Limitless Potential of Limited Scope Representation to Increase Access to Justice for Low- to Moderate-Income Individuals
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A Comprehensive Rethinking of Equal Protection Post-Obergefelll: A Plea for Substantivity in Law
Get PDFThe Lawyer as Superhero: How Marvel Comics\u27 Daredevil Depicts the American Court System and Legal Practice
Get PDFThis article will explore on the portrayal of lawyers and the legal system in Daredevil comic books, particularly issues published in the Twenty-First Century. Because the Daredevil movie and the first two seasons of the Netflix television series have already been examined from various legal perspectives in past articles, this piece will highlight legal storylines from the comics themselves. This exploration is important because writers of future Netflix seasons will surely draw story elements from the comics discussed here and will very likely adapt these exact stories, encouraging the larger television audience to seek out and read the original comics. Given the character’s newfound fame and popularity, Daredevil can accomplish a heroic feat few superheroes can–his comics and television episodes can add to the general public’s ideas of legal practice, ideally portraying lawyers and the legal system accurately, or at least positively, turning entertaining, dramatic, action-packed fictional stories into teaching moments about what lawyers should and should never do
