The Power to Exclude: The (Mis)Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors under the Trump and Biden Administration

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Christina Gerken
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Abstract

In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees.” Three years into his presidency, how far has the Biden Administration come in their efforts to create a more humane asylum system? And has the treatment of unaccompanied minors seen any significant improvements? This article examines the Trump Administration’s attempts to permanently alter the US asylum system. After trying to categorically ban all claims that were based on persecution by “private actors,” the Trump Administration seized on the COVID-19 pandemic as a convenient pretext for taking away even some of the most basic human rights protections that asylum-seekers have enjoyed for generations. This article will argue that the Biden Administration, despite their efforts to restore some basic protections, continues to criminalize and institutionalize many unaccompanied minors.

排斥的权力:特朗普和拜登政府对孤身未成年人的(错误)对待
在 "确保我们作为移民国家价值观的拜登计划"(以下简称 "拜登计划")中,当时的候选人乔-拜登承诺 "重申美国对寻求庇护者和难民的承诺"。拜登担任总统三年来,拜登政府在努力建立一个更加人道的庇护制度方面取得了多大进展?孤身未成年人的待遇是否有明显改善?本文探讨了特朗普政府试图永久改变美国庇护制度的努力。在试图断然禁止所有基于 "私人行为者 "迫害的申请之后,特朗普政府抓住了 COVID-19 大流行这一方便的借口,剥夺了寻求庇护者世代享有的一些最基本的人权保护。本文将论证,拜登政府尽管努力恢复了一些基本保护,但仍继续将许多举目无亲的未成年人定罪和制度化。
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期刊介绍: Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.
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