Family reunification and the security state

Abrams traces the history of the relationship between family reunification and the national security of the state. Wherein it argues that family rights and the federal immigration power have had three very different relationships such as in the first period, family rights were robust but extraconsti...

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Published inConstitutional commentary Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 247 - 280
Main Author Abrams, Kerry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Minneapolis Constitutional Commentary, Inc 22.06.2017
University of Minnesota Law School
Subjects
Civil rights
Family reunification
Government regulation
Immigration policy
Laws, regulations and rules
National security
Political aspects
Political systems
Social aspects
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Summary:Abrams traces the history of the relationship between family reunification and the national security of the state. Wherein it argues that family rights and the federal immigration power have had three very different relationships such as in the first period, family rights were robust but extraconstitutional, a bedrock assumption of how American democracy operated and in the second period, courts shifted to conceiving family rights and the immigration power as conflicting with one another, and when pressed they usually found that the government's interest in restricting immigration and protecting its borders outweighed the interests of individual families in reuniting. Also noted the common law concept of family rights and their relation to migration.
ISSN:0742-7115
2639-7277