Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the White House fails to recognize the country’s legal obligation to asylum seekers and instead seeks to criminalize migrants. The ad hoc arrangement of immigration policy in the United States is wrought with inconsistencies and ill-equipped to deal with the modern realities of human displacement, presenting a serious threat to the country’s longstanding humanitarian tradition.
Political Squabbling with Little Clarity in Immigration Debate
President Barack Obama’s executive order delaying deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants has reignited the debate on his immigration enforcement record. However, partisanship has clouded the discussion, leaving little clarity on what we do and what we do not know about the President’s record.