Immigration Politics & Policy in Real Time

Question 1

Which U.S. political institutions play a notable role in immigration policy-making?

Answer 1

Congress

Question 2

How has partisan polarization reshaped immigration politics and what impact has it had on major immigration reform?

Answer 2

Has placed immigration politics in deadlock, with no willing compromise, consequences: executive unilateralism, lack of immigration federalism, judicial determinations

Question 3

What are some of the biggest changes in immigration policy being advanced by the newest Trump administration?

Answer 3

Asserting Prerogative Power, unilateral executive

Question 4

How does a president’s wartime powers (prerogative powers) relate to executive control over immigration policy in general and deportations in particular?

Answer 4

Alien Enemies Act of 1798, allows for national security interest to serve as justification for specific discrimination, ex. Trump & Venezuelans, Kilmer Abrego Garcia, Maryland man

Question 5

Who is Mahmoud Khalil and how does his case raise 1st Amendment issues?

Answer 5

deported for pro palestinian advocacy, no proper due process

Question 6

Why is the Alien Enemies Act, passed in 1798, newly relevant?

Answer 6

Kilmar Abrego Garcia