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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554275303321

Autore

Peck Alison Elizabeth <1970->

Titolo

The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction / / Alison Elizabeth Peck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-520-38118-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

342.730820269

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Political aspects

Emigration and immigration law - United States - History

Immigration courts - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I. crisis in the immigration courts -- 1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts -- 2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law -- 3. Policing the Immigration Courts -- Part II. from world war ii to 9/11: the ghost of the fifth column -- 4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor -- 5. Refusal -- 6. Invasion -- 7. The Welles Mission -- 8. Alien Enemies -- 9. Reckoning -- 10. Un Día de Fuego -- 11. President Bush's Department -- Part III. the future of the immigration courts -- 12. Checks and Imbalances -- 13. Reforming the Immigration Courts -- Epilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency-and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really "courts" at all but an office of the Department of Justice-the nation's law enforcement agency. This original and surprising diagnosis shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of



the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system 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 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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779550703321

Autore

Jany Carmen <1970->

Titolo

Chimariko grammar [[electronic resource] ] : areal and typological perspective / / Carmen Jany

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

0-520-94519-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

University of California publications in linguistics ; ; v. 142

Disciplina

497/.57

Soggetti

Chimariko Indians - Language

Indians of North America - Languages

Chimariko language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY -- 3. MORPHOPHONEMIC ALTERNATIONS -- 4. WORD CLASSES -- 5. NOUN MORPHOLOGY -- 6. PRONOUN MORPHOLOGY -- 7. ADJECTIVE MORPHOLOGY -- 8. VERB MORPHOLOGY -- 9. SIMPLE SENTENCES -- 10. QUESTIONS -- 11. NEGATION -- 12. COMPLEX SENTENCES -- 13. DISCOURSE STRUCTURE -- 14. SUMMARY: CHIMARIKO IN AREAL-TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- APPENDICES --



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920's, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.