Large scale
deportation has been a feature of the federal government’s immigration
enforcement policy for years. Immigration policies under the new administration
suggest even more expansive reliance on the tools associated with mass
deportation, such as increasing the number of deportations, the scale of
detention, and the categories of persons treated as removal priorities. This
program examines the implications of the current administration’s mass deportation
strategies for existing paradigms in the literature on immigration
adjudication. Panelists will address various questions regarding immigration
adjudication during this era of mass deportation, including: the rise–and
likely expansion–of summary removals and other mechanisms that enable the
federal government to effectuate removal in a streamlined manner and without
the participation of the immigration courts; the impact of the backlog in the
immigration courts on the federal government’s ability to achieve mass
deportation; the continued relevance of the immigration courts and Board of
Immigration Appeals as the central actors in immigration adjudication;
post-deportation integration programs; and the influence of policies related to
mass deportation on broader themes within immigration law such as judicial
review, the rule of law, the constitutional rights of noncitizens, plenary
power, or the entry fiction doctrine.
Business
meeting at program conclusion.