LEADER 04684oam 2200829 450 001 9910554275303321 005 20210708114548.0 010 $a0-520-38118-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520381186 035 $a(CKB)4100000011774711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6480628 035 $a(DE-B1597)577437 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520381186 035 $a(OCoLC)1204265024 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011774711 100 $a20210708d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts $ewar, fear, and the roots of dysfunction /$fAlison Elizabeth Peck 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-520-38117-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tPart I. crisis in the immigration courts -- $t1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts -- $t2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law -- $t3. Policing the Immigration Courts -- $tPart II. from world war ii to 9/11: the ghost of the fifth column -- $t4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor -- $t5. Refusal -- $t6. Invasion -- $t7. The Welles Mission -- $t8. Alien Enemies -- $t9. Reckoning -- $t10. Un Día de Fuego -- $t11. President Bush's Department -- $tPart III. the future of the immigration courts -- $t12. Checks and Imbalances -- $t13. Reforming the Immigration Courts -- $tEpilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aEmigration and immigration$xPolitical aspects 606 $aEmigration and immigration law$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aImmigration courts$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aAmerica. 610 $aDepartment of Justice. 610 $aFBI. 610 $aGreat Depression. 610 $aNazi propaganda. 610 $aTrump administration. 610 $aWWII. 610 $aasylum. 610 $aattorney general. 610 $acase proceedings. 610 $aexecutive branch. 610 $afatal consequences. 610 $afear. 610 $afifth column. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ahuman tragedy. 610 $aimmigration courts. 610 $aindependent system. 610 $ainjustice. 610 $alaw enforcement agency. 610 $alaws. 610 $alegal analysis. 610 $aneutral. 610 $apolitical. 610 $apower. 610 $aspies. 610 $awar on terror. 610 $awar. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration law$xHistory. 615 0$aImmigration courts$xHistory. 676 $a342.730820269 700 $aPeck$b Alison Elizabeth$f1970-$01219521 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554275303321 996 $aThe accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts$92819792 997 $aUNINA