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The Just Security Podcast: ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ Book Talk — Surviving Migration in The Age of Artificial Intelligence

Petra Molnar’s book "The Walls Have Eyes" is a sweeping portrait of how new technology is transforming borders around the world.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in Crisis. Will the U.S. Government Protect Congolese Immigrants in the United States?

DRC meets legal requirements for temporary protected status, including through ongoing armed conflict and environmental disasters.
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Why Trump v. Anderson Undermines State Efforts to Hijack Immigration Enforcement

Faithful application of the Supreme Court’s federalism principles should doom Texas’s attempt to seize control of national immigration policy.
Migrants are brought into Dover Port in England by Border Force officials after being picked up in the English Channel while trying to make the journey from France in inflatable dinghies on March 4, 2024. One man in a yellow vest is seen carrying a boy. Migrants continue to cross the Channel after a seven-year-old girl died after getting into difficulties in French waters over the previous weekend. Approximately 150 people arrived on March 4, although official figures were to come out the following day. Home Office figures show that more than 2,000 migrants had arrived in the UK thus far this year, with difficult weather conditions the likely cause of the relatively low numbers. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Did Macron and Tusk Just Chart a Path for Liberals Elsewhere on Immigration?

Countries will be better off with measured limits than with far-right demagogues in power or a total capitulation to anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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What Should Courts Do If a Future President Invokes the Alien Enemies Act to Deport Immigrants?

Congress can repeal the Alien Enemies Act to safeguard against Trump's threat to conduct mass deportations without hearings.
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Why and How the Senate Should Swiftly Dismiss the Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas

"The articles are also facially and substantively defective in many other respects. Upon convening as a court of impeachment, the Senate should swiftly reject the articles as a…
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Biden Can, But Shouldn’t, Federalize the Texas National Guard

Invocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate.
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The Biden Administration Must Use Civil Rights Enforcement to Push Back Against Texas’s Racist Invocation of Invasion

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's invocation of "invasion" is based in the white supremacist "great replacement" conspiracy theory.
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Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense.
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EU’s AI Act Falls Short on Protecting Rights at Borders

More robust and enforceable governance mechanisms are needed to regulate the high-risk AI experiments at borders, including a moratorium on violent technologies and red lines under…
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The United Nations in Hindsight: UN Security Council Sanctions

Sanctions programs could benefit from certain measures to restore their function as a critical U.N. Security Council tool for peace.
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Solutions That Work? Analyzing State Employment Authorization for Noncitizens in the US

Policymakers and advocates would do well to pay careful attention to the legal theories underlying the various state proposals for authorizing employment for noncitizens when considering…
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