Case Study Assignment

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  Posted by Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers) on February 11, 2021 at 1:44 pm

  Case Study Assignment:

  Pick one of the following immigration legal categories or programs and complete the following questions thoroughly. The thoroughness of your answers will enable more focused and productive work later on in the semester.

  Each of these should be defined in the US context, eg, for asylum, which is established under international law and agreements, what is the US asylum policy?

  • DACA- Leslie
  • DAPA- Leslie
  • Asylum- Soren
  • Section 245i adjustment of status
  • Family reunification and marriage- Juliana
  • Family Separation- Misael
  • Green card lottery– AJ
  • H-1B visas
  • H-2A visas- Josmairy
  • H-2B visas
  • Refugees- Kevin
  • IRCA- Ashley?
  • IIRIA
  • Immigrant detention- Rosalina
  • Deportation- Emely
  • Comprehensive immigration reform

   

  1. Why/How/When was this program or category created in the US? Is it an active program/category or is it expired/never activated?
  2. What is it? What was the intent of this program or category? Did it replace an earlier program or category? Did it seek to solve a specific problem or issue? Who created it (e.g. a particular president, congress, international organization like the UN)
  3. Who does this program or category include? Who does it serve? Do you know anyone who was served by this program/category?
  4. Who does this program or category exclude? Who does it harm? Do you know anyone who was harmed by this program/category?
  5. What major debates or controversies have surrounded this program or category?
     Should this program/category remain active or become activated in the future? Why or why not?
  6. What resources did you use to answer these questions? How difficult or easy was it to answer these questions? How did you ensure that your information sources were reliable?
  7. What is your gut-level response to this program/category? Is/was it fair/unfair, just/unjust, needed/unnecessary? How would you change it?

  Answering these questions should take about 1-2 pages in total, single spaced. Please include links (how to insert links) and/or citations to the resources you relied on for this assignment. Please reply to this prompt to post your assignment. Please copy/paste your text into the box rather than attaching a separate document. This will be an important resource for research for our final projects.

  Due: Feb 18, 2021 at 2 pm

• Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers)

  Member

  February 25, 2021 at 12:15 pm

  Great info, but what question I’m left with is: does it work? Does the current number of people who are able to immigrate with this program achieve the stated goal of diversifying the immigration flow?

   
  Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers)

  Member

  February 25, 2021 at 12:18 pm

  I wasn’t aware of when deportation began. Thank you for that historical detail.

  You say:

  This program does not exclude anyone as everyone plays their role or is involved for instance people who are citizens of the United States may feel safer when criminals are being deported. Unfortunately, on the other hand it does harm families and children as they are often broken up and separated.

  Who is deported? How do we, or the government know, it is deporting criminals? You don’t include specific data about how deportations increased to record levels under Obama. Trump continued deporting at a high rate, but now Biden has, officially, called for a moratorium on deportations, even though in reality deportations have continued.

  You seem convinced that only “bad guys” are deported. Do you have evidence for that? How are people designated as “deportable”? Who is safe from deportation? How does due process work? What about the idea that deporting someone after they serve time for a crime is double jeopardy? I’d like to see more detail here.

   
  Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers)

  Member

  February 25, 2021 at 12:20 pm

  So much detail! Thank you!
  These visa categories are really the bread and butter of our immigration system. When people say immigrants should “get in line” this is the main line that they’re referring to. Who gets to immigrate? Who doesn’t? I’m not sure I get a sense from this whether these programs are sufficiently accessible and whether they meet their stated goals.
  Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers)

  Member

  February 25, 2021 at 12:23 pm

  Great.
  How about the current “asylum crisis”? What caused it? Who is currently most likely to ask for asylum? Who is most likely to receive it?

  You say:

  Many of those who apply for asylum with legitimate claims are still rejected because of how dysfunctional and xenophobic the system can be. I’ve never known someone who had their claim for asylum rejected, but to be fair the relative of mine from Denmark who have immigrated aren’t fleeing violence.

  What are the rates of rejection/granting of asylum? How have policies surrounding asylum changed only in the last few years? Sessions, as Trump’s AG, made it impossible, for example, to claim asylum on the basis of domestic violence or gang violence, and those claims are at the root of a lot of the reasons Central Americans currently flee their countries. Biden has already tried to undo some of these restrictions… what does this mean for asylum? I’d like to see more up to date info in your case study.
  Alyshia Gálvez (she/her/hers)

  Member

  February 25, 2021 at 12:26 pm

  So much detail and so powerful!
  Only one important correction: DAPA was never allowed to be implemented. No one has benefited from the program because Obama was blocked from implementing it with an executive order. Do you think, though, that it is part of what Biden’s new immigration legislation package includes? That DAPA and DACA have essentially been folded into the new legislative proposal (proposal, not law– there’s a long road ahead of us before it’s law)?
  Emely

  Participant

  February 25, 2021 at 1:22 pm

  Hello Professor, Thank you for the feedback and comments. Here I searched more about deportations. “In the 105 years between 1892 and 1997, the United States deported 2.1 million people. … Bush, about 2.0 million people were deported, while between 2009 and 2016, during the Presidency of Barack Obama, about 3.2 million people were deported”.

  4. Who does this program or category exclude? Who does its harm? Do you know anyone who was harmed by this program/category?

  This program does not exclude anyone as everyone plays their role or is involved for instance people who are citizens of the United States may feel safer when criminals are being deported. Unfortunately, on the other hand it does harm families and children as they are often broken up and separated.

  In this question I didn’t mean that only bad criminals are being deported, what I meant was that if the goverment took that option of only deporting criminals the U.S would feel safer, even at the end I wrote that if I had the power of changing something for that law, would be just deport the criminals and allow the people that has been working hard for years and in the present to stay here and give them the opportunity to keep working.  I apologize for the confusion.